Here's the story from MSNBC.com., which shows that
there were certainly more than 10 minority participants. There were in
fact 314 black volunteers...
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24 � An experimental AIDS
vaccine does not appear to protect most whites and Hispanics from the disease
but may show promise in protecting blacks and Asians, said VaxGen Inc., the
company that makes the vaccine. NBC�s Robert Bazell cautioned that the results
showing possible protection among some racial groups were highly inconclusive
and represented �a very small part of a study that was essentially
negative.�
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THE OVERALL expected rate of infection was not reduced in the
high-risk people who volunteered to take the vaccine, VaxGen said late
Sunday. The much-anticipated results of the trial found that in more than 5,000 volunteers � mostly gay, white men � people who received the vaccine contracted HIV infections at the same rate as those who received a placebo injection of water. �Looking at the data as a whole, I think this vaccine is dead in the water,� said Dr. John Moore of Cornell University�s Weill Medical College. �It didn�t work, and I�m not sure it�s worth much more investment of time and effort.� However, there was one intriguing finding: The expected infection rate for the 314 black volunteers who received the vaccine was reduced by 78 percent � a result the researchers said was unexpected. The rate was reduced by 67 percent for all non-white volunteers other than Hispanics. |
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The Brisbane, Calif.-based company hailed these
findings as cause for hope. �This is the first time we have specific numbers to suggest that a vaccine has prevented HIV infection in humans,� VaxGen vice president Phillip Berman said in a prepared statement Sunday night. �We�re not sure yet why certain groups have a better immune response.� VaxGen said it planned to continue developing the vaccine, known as AIDSVAX, and will examine more closely why it worked better in blacks and Asians than it did in whites and Hispanics. | ||||||||
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