AIDS researchers have launched a high-profile attack on a large US government trial of an HIV vaccine taking place in Thailand.
The fight over trials began in 2002 when both the US National Institutes of Health and the defence department were planning to go ahead with separate trials of the same combination vaccine. AIDS researcher John Moore of Cornell University in New York attacked the double trial as useless duplication. A few months later the government cancelled one of them for reasons officials said were unrelated to Moore’s criticism. The NIH went ahead with plans for the trial in Thailand.…
