New bid to find HIV vaccine begins in London hospital

Scientists are recruiting 64 healthy adult volunteers for the trial, which is expected to take up to two years.The work will be split equally between London, the Rwandan capital Kigali and Nairobi in Kenya.This early trial is being run by the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a non-profit organisation.The principal investigator, Dr Jill Gilmour, who has worked at the laboratory at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital since its founding in 2001, says she is optimistic that the Aids virus can eventually be tackled with a vaccine.

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