China News Agency, Moscow, December 1st (Reporter Wang Xiujun) December 1st is World AIDS Day.
On the same day, Popova, director of the Russian Federation's Consumer Rights Protection and Public Welfare Supervision Agency, revealed in Moscow that Russia has developed a prototype AIDS vaccine.
Popova said that Russia has been involved in the research and development of AIDS vaccines for many years. There are currently several AIDS prototype vaccines in Russia, including prototype vaccines developed by the Russian "Vector" Virology and Biotechnology Research Center and other institutions.
Mazus, chief expert on HIV infection at the Russian Ministry of Health, said that the current HIV infection rate in Russia has reached a stable level, and the number of new infections has decreased in recent years.
Although HIV has been discovered for nearly 40 years, due to its variability and diversity, so far there is no vaccine against the disease in the world that can leave the laboratory and be used in large quantities.
The development of an AIDS vaccine is still an important task and challenge facing the world.
The first case of AIDS occurred in the Soviet Union in 1985.
Russia began research and development of an AIDS vaccine in 1997. Later, due to funding problems, the research and development and testing work was blocked several times.
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