The World Aids Conference in South Africa announces trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.

2000: Britain pioneers HIV vaccine

The World Aids Conference in South Africa announces trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.

On July 200, the World Aids Conference in South Africa announced trials for a new HIV vaccine began in Britain.
UK's Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris was one of 18 healthy volunteers who took part in the first toxicity tests.
The MP for Oxford West, Dr Harris, 35, said: "I hope to be a small part of a process that will deliver something that will save Africa from further devastation."
The vaccine has been developed by researchers at Oxford and Nairobi Universities who studied prostitutes in Kenya and found a group who resisted the disease in spite of daily exposure to it.