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Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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Russian specialists are working on creating a vaccine against HIV, and by the end of this year it is planned to complete work on a prototype of the drug. Russia pays great attention to the development of new scientific directions that are aimed at creating fundamentally new modern preventive drugs against HIV infection.
In the near future, scientists plan to present a prototype of the drug, and the first clinical trials are already scheduled for the end of 2014. Russian scientists are also developing new vaccines that will help doctors effectively stop the development of the immunodeficiency virus at the initial stages.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, over the course of three years it is planned to send more than two hundred million rubles to CIS countries for programs to implement measures to combat HIV.
Experts note that a project is already successfully operating, within the framework of which assistance in the fight against AIDS is provided to the countries of the former USSR. This project is designed for three years (from 2012 to 2015). As noted in Rospotrebnadzor, today HIV infection is recorded in all countries. According to statistics, every year the disease takes the lives of 1.5 million people, while more than two million new cases of HIV infection are recorded annually.
It is known that specialists from all countries have been trying to uncover the secret of the immunodeficiency virus for several years. In addition, cases of infection with the immunodeficiency virus have been recorded in animals. Over several decades, scientists have developed many drugs that reduce the rate of infection in the body, but no drug can provide complete protection against the virus today.
Recently, American specialists have developed a new remedy that, in their opinion, can cure different types of HIV, but all experiments were conducted exclusively on animals. As is known, the immunodeficiency virus has a fairly large genetic diversity, which is the main problem for scientists developing a cure for AIDS.
According to American specialists, their new remedy will help develop an effective medicine against different types of HIV.
The specialists analyzed the ability to influence the production of antibodies to protect the body, both in humans and animals, then the specialists developed a vaccine, which they tested on HIV- infected monkeys. As a result, all the monkeys that were administered the new drug remained alive, but it is worth noting that the animals were administered a dose that exceeded the permissible norm for humans, but the probability of HIV infection with the introduction of high doses of the drug is reduced by 90%.
Also, last year, French specialists conducted successful clinical trials of an HIV vaccine that does not protect against the disease, but significantly slows the spread of the infection in the body. The vaccine contains a dead immunodeficiency virus, and during the experiment it was found that the drug is able to reduce the virus content in the blood by 90%, and in some patients it was found that the virus stopped spreading through the blood, but remained in the body at a minimal level.
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