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Aids vaccine trials "encouraging"

    NAIROBI
    Initial results from ongoing trials of an AIDS vaccine on some 40 Ugandans are showing "encouraging" results, scientists have said. "We have so far achieved all the initial scientific objectives, got the people we wanted to recruit and the vaccine has not caused any side effects," the weekly newspaper 'The East African' quoted the director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC), Peter Mugyenyi, as saying. The trials for the vaccine, Canary pox Alvac HIV, began in February and will be conducted in three stages. Uganda was selected by the WHO, along with Brazil and Thailand, as one of the sites for the trials.

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