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India to Begin Trials of HIV Vaccine on Humans

Tue Nov 30, 7:16 AM ET

BOMBAY, India (Reuters) - India, home to the world's second largest HIV (news - web sites) population after South Africa, is set to begin human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a research institute said Tuesday.

The country has over 5.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS (news - web sites) and experts saying the number could quadruple by 2010.

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