'Therapeutic vaccine' for AIDS within four years, Nobel Prize winner predicts

Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, shared half the [Nobel] award with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur for their work in pinpointing the cause of the disease.

On receiving the honour, Montagnier said a treatment could be possible in the future with a "therapeutic" rather than preventive vaccine for which results might be published in three or four years if financial backing is forthcoming.

A therapeutic vaccine prevents disease from flourishing after it has taken hold.

"I think it will be possible with a therapeutic vaccine rather than preventative vaccinations. We would give it to people who are already infected," he said

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