A "broadly effective" AIDS vaccine is at least 10 years away.

A "broadly effective" AIDS vaccine is at least 10 years away, according to reports from the first meeting of the newly reconfigured Presidential Advisory Council upon HIV and AIDS.

In a March 15 presentation upon the state of ADS and HIV research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci told the council that there are "a apportionment of important unanswered questions" however for a vaccine that would stop infection, but clinical trials are in subordination to way for candidates that point out to "at least a partial effect"

These vaccines, equal though they would not be 100% effective at preventing or controlling HIV infection, would still be useful in slashing the number of AIDS cases in developing countries with high rates of HIV infection, Fauci said.

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