The World - News from Dec. 17, 1986
Experimental vaccines against AIDS will probably be tested on humans for the first time next year, but a medical preventive for the disease remains years away, scientists said at a two-day meeting at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Vaccine testing on monkeys began this year, they said, and tests will start on AIDS-free human volunteers in 1987. The human tests will be aimed at identifying side effects that were undetected in animal trials and will be the first step toward “field testing” of a broad range of people. Researchers have tested drugs on AIDS victims to slow the advance of the virus, but no human tests have been made on protecting AIDS-free people.
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