VaxGen's Claims of Efficacy in Black and Asian Participants Are Misleading and Premature 24 February 2003The undersigned community-based HIV/AIDS organizations are deeply concerned by today's presentation of data from the phase III clinical trial of VaxGen's HIV vaccine candidate, AIDSVAX…
AIDSVAX Arbitrary and Post-Hoc Subset Analysis, Up Close "Non-White Non-Hispanic" "Black" N= 498 314 Infections, vaccine group 17 12* Infections, placebo group 9 4† *p= 0.01, CI= 30-84% †p=0.02, CI= 29-93%
January: NIH workshops on long term effectiveness research, studies designed to look at "when to start" and switch HAART, and for long-term side effects. TAG hires Yvette Delph as new Antiviral Project Director. Completion of TAG's AIDS Vaccine Research at…
Critical Issues From TAG's Forthcoming HCV/HIV Co-Infection Report and Analysis By Tracy Swan Research Still Lags Tracy Swan's teaser sneak preview of her upcoming Hepatitis C/HIV Co-infection Report (Version 2.0), slated for release this spring, is now available as both…
The Boston AIDS Conference That Never Was -- And Other Grim Tales By David Barr A Sick Lymph Node Makes Its Début TAGline catches up with its peripatetic international scribe as he negotiates a perilous course around canals and through…
January: amfAR's Paul Corser dies after a nine-year struggle with AIDS. FDA approves Glaxo's atovaquone (Mepron) for the prevention of PCP pneumonia. ACT UP/Needle Exchange activist Rod Sorge dies. Retrovirus conference, Chicago. Beatrice Hahn presents on the HIV-1's chimp origins;…
Storming Montréal's Palais de Congrès, and Makeshift Battle Stations in Fortress San Francisco By David Barr Bodyguarded Investigators It could be said that NIH-activist relations reached their untenable nadir in 1990. Nearly 30,000 Americans had died of AIDS the previous…
January: TAG community meeting at which John Moore gives update on vaccine research. TAG board member Marvin Shulman says farewell to New York life and heads for a full-time residency in South Miami Beach. FDA approves dental dams. Monica Lewinsky…
Feel Good, "Why Can't We Just All Be Friends?" Executive Reunion Ends in Promises Aplenty By Mark Harrington "This Man's Gonna Cure AIDS" AIDS policy people from across the country convened in Washington, D.C. recently where they met with representatives…
Nattering Nabobs' Noxious Spin, And the Imperiled Future of STI Research By Richard Jefferys The ELISpot Conundrum When an investigational drug causes a 0.4 log drop in viral load, it's evidence of biological activity. When the first large auto-vaccination study…