OK..I want to know exactly how they test this vaccine to truly see if it works. Do they give them the shot and then set them up with someone that has HIV to see if they contract it? If not then this test really doesn't mean anything because how do they know if this person even was with anyone with HIV. They can't know that at all. Seems like false test results to me unless they are having people who aren't infected sleeping with people who are to see what occurs with the ones who get the real vaccine and not placebo.

Cindy..Ga.

How did the researchers control for people engaging in higher-risk behaviors who did not self-report those behaviors versus those who did? Maybe those in the vaccine group just lucked out because they engaged in less risky behaviors as compared to the control group. There is way too little info for me to say whether or not this study could even remotely be considered valid. And how are they planning to test for reliability?

As a counselor who spent five years of her life researching HIV prevention and person who's lost too many important people in her world to this horrible disease, I'd love for this to be remotely true. But after years of false hope, empty promises, and a disease that is still taking people I love, I'm not buying into the hype until I can read the actual research myself and see longitudinal studies that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is real. We've been duped too many times before. You all owe us better than to do it to us again.