Experimental HIV Vaccine Found Effective in Monkeys: Study

Importantly, the study also showed that neutralising antibodies were the key to stopping the virus.

Scientists have found that an experimental HIV vaccine strategy could be effective in non-human primates.

The goal of this strategy is to identify the rare, vulnerable areas on HIV and teach the immune system to make antibodies to attack those areas.

In the study, rhesus macaque monkeys produced neutralising antibodies against one strain of HIV that resembles the resilient viral form that most commonly infects people, called a Tier 2 virus.