A research team from Australia are in the progress of creating a new vaccine for HIV.

Branka Grubor-Bauk from the University of Adelaide said the team targeted the vaccine into areas in which the HIV infection is most commonly found, and discovered that the testing achieved a "significant reduction" of infection rates in the mice.
"You need to get protection where your body encounters the virus first and you need to stop that virus from either entering, or you need to stop it from replicating and stop it from spreading," Grubor-Bauk said on Monday.
"We're hoping our discovery is definitely pointing us in the right direction."
She said now the team had made the important breakthrough, and it was vital that research continues into a human vaccine for the HIV infection.
"After a long four years of study, we were able to create this common cold virus that encoded proteins of HIV and we vaccinated mice and we were successful in creating immunity in mucosal surfaces," Grubor-Bauk said.
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The results of the testing were published in the Scientific Reports journal.
Source-IANS