{"id":35878,"date":"2017-09-21T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hope-as-experts-conduct-aids-virus-vaccine-trial\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:21:19","slug":"hope-as-experts-conduct-aids-virus-vaccine-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hope-as-experts-conduct-aids-virus-vaccine-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope as experts conduct AIDS\/Virus vaccine trial in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Projet San Francisco (PSF), a research project con HIV\/AIDS in Rwanda, experts have said that the first phase on HIV\/AIDS vaccine trial has shown  there is  hope for positive results. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the meeting that brought together researchers on HIV\/AIDS from across the World, the Projet San Francisco coordinator, Dr. Etienne Karita said that a step has been made to get the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>In Rwanda, research on HIV\/AIDS vaccine started in 2005. One vaccine is tried on between 20 and 50 people to find out whether there is no impact it can bring on human health and whether the body can develop blood cells able to resist HIV\/AIDS. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is done through different processes like testing its effects in the body and when there is no effect detected, then it\u2019s tested to establish if it can protect against HIV\/AIDS,\u201d he told the media yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the first phase on establishing whether it cannot cause side effects in the body went well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first phase in laboratory has shown that this vaccine helps the body to develop blood cells that can fight HIV\/AIDS; the next phase will be experimenting among the most high risk groups,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health, Dr. Diane Gashumba said that the meeting being held in Kigali is committed on coming up with discovering HIV\/AIDS virus vaccine.<br \/>\n Statistics from the Ministry of Health shows that in Rwanda 3% of the populations is HIV\/AIDS positive.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21805 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr_etienne_karita_yavuze_ko_icyiciro_cya_mbere_cy_urukingo_rwa_sida_cyagenze_neza-8f3ae.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Etienne Karita declaring that a step has been made to get the vaccine for HIV\/AIDS.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21806 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/hebdcjx.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Health, Dr. Diane Gashumba acknowledging the meeting committed on coming up with discovering HIV\/AIDS virus vaccine\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21807 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/htrdcfv.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is hope for breakthrough on HIV vaccination as trials are being conducted in Rwanda, experts have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35878"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35878"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}