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Kenya scientist on the verge of HIV-AIDS elimination break-through
Sunday, August 26, 2012
The trials, says Dr Miaron, will be supervised by Prof Walter Jaoko a microbiologist with the University of Nairobi who has been extensively involved in the search for an AIDS vaccine globally.
“They will be carried out in sites at the University of Nairobi while we are in discussions with the Aga Khan University, Karen Hospital in Nairobi and the African Center for Clinical Trials, so that we are able to get the widest possible diversity of information,” says Dr Miaron.
If this product succeeds in killing the AIDS- causing virus as studies in baboons have already shown, then Kenya could be on its way to giving the world the weapon it needs to eliminate HIV.
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