An HIV vaccine is a potential vaccine intended either to protect people from HIV infection or to treat those already infected, working either by inducing an immune response against the virus, an active vaccination approach, or by supplying preformed antibodies against it, a passive vaccination approach. Two active vaccine regimens, studied in the RV 144 and Imbokodo trials, showed they could prevent HIV infection in some participants, but the protection reached relatively few people and did not last long, so no HIV vaccine has yet been licensed for the market. A central challenge in developing one is that the HIV virus generates mutations faster than any other known virus.
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An HIV vaccine is a potential vaccine that could be either a preventive vaccine or a therapeutic vaccine, which means it would either protect individuals from being infected with HIV or treat HIV-infected individuals.
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An HIV vaccine is a potential vaccine that could be either a preventive vaccine or a therapeutic vaccine, which means it would either protect individuals from being infected with HIV or treat HIV-infected individuals.
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