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Poor turnout for HIV/AIDS vaccine trials

    JOHANNESBURG
    The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) on Wednesday said it was optimistic despite the poor turnout of volunteers for phase one of the HIV/AIDS vaccine trials. UVRI said only 10 out of the 50 "expected" volunteers were participating in the trials which began in February. "The response is very slow. We still need 40 volunteers to enrol between now and 2004," URVI's head of immunology, Dr Pontiano Kaleebu, told the UN news service PlusNews. Kaleebu said the initial phase required 50 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 50 to be given four vaccine injections each, over a period of 18 months. "We are hopeful that more volunteers will come forward during the course of 2003," Kaleebu added.

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