Dr. Jonas Salk, the pioneering immunologist who developed the first polio vaccine, called HIV/AIDS the metaphoric disease of our time.
There are 8,000 new HIV infections daily worldwide and no preventative vaccine is in sight.
For every 2 HIV-infected individuals placed on anti-retroviral therapy (ARV), another 5 are diagnosed.
T-cell vaccination, as the HIV-immunotherapy is called, focuses on re-establishing immunological memory within the immune system of the HIV-infected individual.
While remaining HIV positive for life, this "post-infection vaccine effect" intends to delay, perhaps indefinitely in some, progression towards AIDS. also important, no toxicity has been observed in our studies to date.
To Dr. Salk, T-cell vaccination immunotherapy would effect a "live and let live" solution in HIV-infection.
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