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Re:Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf] by rposborne on Monday January 27, 2014 @09:18PM (#7134885)
The definition of a vaccine is that it is preventative vs. a cure which is removing a disease from a previously infected patient.

"A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease."

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Re:Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf] by vertis on Monday January 27, 2014 @09:32PM (#7134937)
Yes, but immunity has many definitions, including 'to fight off'.

Since it's essentially teaching the immune system, why does this not work when the patient is already infected.

I thought there may be some difference between this and traditional vaccines as well.

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Re:Immunity Project – HIV Vaccine Development Program [pdf] by j2d3 on Monday January 27, 2014 @10:37PM (#7135159)
This story discusses other HIV vaccine efforts that are targeted at already infected and stop the dependence on the HIV meds:

http://www.livescience.com/18107-hiv-therapeutic-vaccines-pr...

according to that article there are 34 million people already infected worldwide.

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