HIV/AIDS Vaccine from Canada received the green light by U.S. FDA officials to begin Human Trials

By DAVE SMITH  The International Business Times 
Canadian researchers from the University of Western Ontario in London claim they have developed a promising HIV vaccine, which has received the green light by U.S. FDA officials to begin testing on humans.

"We started the basic science research two decades ago,"said Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, the lead researcher for the project. "The vaccine development, we started 10 years ago. This is incredible for us to get to this stage of development."

This HIV vaccine, called "SAV001," was developed with the support from Sumagen Canada, a biotech company designed to drive clinical development of Kang's work. It is the only HIV vaccine currently being developed in Canada.

The first of three clinical trials began in January, which used 40 volunteers that already had the HIV virus. The experimental medicine was awarded funds on Jan. 12 to support clinical trials of the vaccine

Uganda Health Minister: Pray AIDS Away

From joemygod.blogspot.com:

Uganda's new minister of health claims that prayer cures AIDS. And surprise surprise, she's also a backer of the "Kill Gays Bill" and is supported by American evangelicals. All are complicit in the deaths of any Ugandan who rejects medical treatment for AIDS. 

In May 2011 Dr. Christine Ondoa was chosen as the new head of Uganda's Ministry of Health. The position will give Ondoa authority over a significant portion of Uganda's foreign HIV/AIDS mitigation funding, which in the year 2010 included over $270 million dollars from the United States. Along with her role as a medical professional, Christine Ondoa also serves as pastor in the Life Line Ministries of apostle Julius Peter Oyet, one of the most powerful clerics leading Uganda's ongoing crusade against gay rights. Since her appointment as Health Ministry head, Ondoa has promoted the claim, an established tenet of Peter Wagner's apostolic movement, also advanced by Oyet's Life Line Ministries, that HIV/AIDS can be cured through prayer.