AIDS Vaccine Possible Within 5 Years

Nobel medicine laureate sees progress on AIDS vaccine:

STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Luc Montagnier, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Saturday stood by his view that a “therapeutic vaccine” for the AIDS pandemic could be created within four to five years.

“It is difficult to say, but it is perhaps a case of four to five years,” he told AFP, following a press conference in Stockholm ahead of receiving the prestigious prize next week.

In October Montagnier, 76, said an AIDS treatment could be possible in the future with a “therapeutic” rather than preventive vaccine for which results might be published in three or four years if financial backing is forthcoming.