The supervisor of a major HIV vaccine trial in South Africa voiced "huge disappointment" Saturday after testing was halted in the wake of poor results from sister trials in Australia and the United States.
US pharmaceutical giant Merck announced on Friday that it had halted the trials of its V520 vaccine after a study found it to be ineffective.
"It is a huge disappointment because this vaccine has shown promise all the way through, but it's only when you get in on these big trials that you start to see how the vaccine behaves," South Africa trials supervisor Glenda Gray told AFP
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