《美国2016年开发中的HIV-爱滋病新药》.pdfVIP

Survey M E D I C I N E S I N D E V E L O P M E N T F O R / HIV AIDS P R E S E N T E D B Y A M E R I C A ’ S P H A R M A C E U T I C A L C O M P A N I E S Researchers Are Testing 83 Medicines for HIV/AIDS; Progress Being Made in Developing Vaccines o combat the one of the world’s most devastating 2003 M EDICINES IN DEVELOPMENT FOR AIDS* diseases, pharmaceutical and biotechnology Tresearchers are testing 83 medicines for HIV/AIDS Anticancers 6 and related conditions, intensifying their efforts and Antifungals 4 achieving steady progress in the development of vaccines. The medicines in the pipeline will add to the 80 that Anti-Infectives 7 have been approved since the virus that causes AIDS Antivirals 33 was first identified just 20 years ago. Immunomodulators 9 In what has been called “a silent revolution in AIDS vaccine research,” 15 new vaccines are in development Vaccines 15 and, according to the RD database, Pharmaprojects, Others 13 62 projects were being evaluated earlier this year. Vaccine research is considered crucial to control the AIDS pan- *Some medicines are listed in more than one category. demic. In September, it was announced that the first global human tests of an experimental AIDS vaccine had begun in vaccine candidate is made from a noninfectious copy 18 cities in North America, South America, the Caribbean, of a protein from the surface of the AIDS virus. The Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. “I’m certainly more vaccine is designed t