Comments:Experimental AIDS vaccine fails; volunteers now infected
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Eerie
editNow that is just wrong. These people now have ruined lives that will require a lifetime of medicine, that cannot even help them...eerie...DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 22:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I think the way this article is worded may lead people to believe that the vaccine CAUSED the volunteers (mostly homosexual men and female sex worrkers) to CONTRACT HIV. But accorinding to CBS News, the volunteers were considered high risk and it seems they got the disease from their own activities, not as a result of this test. The tragedy here is that the number of persons infected from the dummy group and the real vaccine group were about the same; thus making the vaccine, at least in its current incarnation, appear ineffective. Please change the wording of the article. Thanks.
words that may lead to confusion
editI'm afraid the wording "The majority of the volunteers were either homosexual males or female sex workers" may lead the general audience to confuse homosexual males with sex workers. In my opinion it should be specified that homosexual males that were part of the program might have had multiple partners.