A Canadian-made HIV vaccine has cleared a major hurdle

Canadian-developed HIV vaccine shows promising results, no adverse effects, say developers. Scientists announced on Tuesday that initial results from human clinical trials show no adverse effects and significantly boosted immunity.

It's "promising" because, apparently....

it won't immediately kill you!

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Developed by researchers at Western University in London, Ont., it’s the first and only preventative HIV vaccine based on a genetically modified killed whole-virus. It has shown promising results after Phase 1 trials.

“These are very exciting results,” said Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, professor of virology at the university’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. “It is, really, a major milestone.”

Last year, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved human clinical trials on the vaccine, called SAV001-H.

Drag a few billion $HIV$Re$earch$ dollars in front of some university medical science "experts," and they might just tell you anything you want to hear, as Eisenhower sort of warned in his Farewell Address in 1961, when he said a government grant may become a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html 

Should hiding HIV status always be a crime?

by Lauren Vogel Canadian Medical Association 

Canadians living with HIV should not face jail time for keeping their medical condition from sexual partners if the risk of transmission is low or if they use condoms while having sex, civil liberties advocates say.

Criminal prosecution should be reserved for those who intentionally infect others, they add while asking the Supreme Court of Canada to define the meaning of “significant risk of harm” and compel its use as a standard in determining whether to prosecute people (using Criminal Code provisions such as aggravated sexual assault) who fail to disclose their HIV-positive status to sexual partners.