Fifteen volunteers were injected with Chinese home made AIDS
vaccine Sunday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region, a signal China's phase one AIDS
vaccine trial test has entered the final phase, said a Chinese
medical expert.
Chen Jie, deputy director of Guangxi autonomous regional disease
control center, said clinical data of all the volunteers will serve
a scientific basis to show whether the second phase trial project
of AIDS vaccine will start.
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All the 49 volunteers for the phase-one trial test, divided into
eight groups, were all in good physical condition and no one ever
quit.
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The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) approved the first
clinical phase of the new AIDS vaccine on Nov. 25, 2004.
There have been 35 AIDS vaccine trial tests on humans around the
world, most of which are still at the early phase. With its first
AIDS case reported in 1985, China now has an estimated 840,000 HIV
carriers and AIDS patients, according to sources with Chinese
medical authorities.
(Xinhua News Agency September 18, 2005)