Beijing: An HIV vaccine being developed by Chinese scientists will be given to 160 volunteers in a second-phase clinical trial, a scientist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The candidate vaccine, DNA-rTV, relies on replication of the DNA of HIV to stimulate effective immunisation, according to Shao Yiming, a chief HIV researcher at the centre.
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