After 40 years of AIDS, here’s why we still don’t have an HIV vaccine
The complex biology of HIV makes the virus a tough target to tackle
The early days of the HIV pandemic in the United States were fraught with controversy as some people saw AIDS as a disease that affected only the gay community. In July 1983, people marched in Washington, D.C., to demand the funds to fight HIV/AIDS.
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