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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

One of the HIV vaccine centers was at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. It has just come out unfortunately that the HIV vaccine failed. It did not protect anyone from becoming infected with HIV...

There is the issue that MAYBE HSV-2 infection has some protection against HIV, BUT I just read in JAMA that may not be all the accurate...

I do not understand why a vaccine cannot be made against HIV... It does not make sense? And what bakes my noodle even more is how come folks with advance HIV disease do not get "polio" or "MMR"?

Actually the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally has dramatically dropped, and that's not because of an actual drop in the HIV burden, but because of better counting methods in India. UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) and the World Health Organization announced some time last November that the disease's prevalence in India is around 2 million. That's still a lot when you look at the numbers alone, but if you think about it, that's down by more than half from a previous estimate of around 5 million.