title: HIV Vaccination, is Breakthrough Underway?
abstract: After long defeats-almost no marked breakthrough in HIV vaccination campaign has been observed during the past two decades, and we still have not lost our faiths for the development of highly effective and low risk HIV vaccines. Many effective vaccines have been discovered and will certainly enter into the markets within the next 5 to 10 years. In order to promote HIV vaccine developments and clinical HIV therapeutic improvements, this perspective addresses the good and bad sides of currently available HIV vaccines, discusses many subjects of medical significance and finally provides up-to-date information in the field of HIV studies, in particular regarding vaccine developments and HIV pathogenesis.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, P.R. China. ludayong@shu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Da-Yong
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Hong-Ying
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Ting-Ren
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ding
mesh_terms: D016915:AIDS Vaccines; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D014611:Vaccination
chemical_list: D016915:AIDS Vaccines