The Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba participate in the development of one of vaccines to prevent AIDS which are tested all over the world.
“The project is in phase 3 of development, to demonstrate whether the vaccine is effective in reducing the risk of HIV transmission,” he says in “Wake up Andalusia” Dr. Ignacio Pérez Valero, infectious disease specialist.
“Though we still don’t have data on whether or not the vaccine is effective”, Dr. Pérez Valero believes it is necessary to send to message of hope: “The fifty patients have already completed the vaccination cycle, there have been no problems, the vaccine is well tolerated and now we just have to wait for the infections to continue, and see if there is a reduction in infections in the group of people who they received the vaccine.
But he specifies that “we must be cautious in the message we send. What this study is evaluating is whether or not this vaccine will be effective in reducing risk, but we don’t yet know if the vaccine will work and can be marketed; Y if it does not prove effective, other strategies will have to be tried”, as was done in another similar study conducted with women in Africa. “There are many strategies. In Barcelona for example they are trying a different one and there are many vaccine studies around the world”.
Regarding how the progress that has been shown since covid virus vaccinesthe specialist believes he can always help: “these new technologies are making them consider new vaccination strategies in the field of HIV”.
