Opinion – Julio Abramczyk: There is no vaccine for a serious virus, but there is treatment

The first signs of a mysterious and deadly disease appeared in the United States in 1981.

Shortly thereafter, this disease reached practically all countries, mobilizing the main medical centers worldwide to face the problem.

Two years later, in 1983, the virus that causes the disease was isolated and called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

It was not until 1987 that AZT was created, the first of a series of drugs that emerged for the treatment of AIDS.

Despite significant advances in the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of AIDS, medicine still does not have a vaccine against the disease.

For this reason, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the United States, headed for many years by immunologist Anthony Fauci, current chief medical adviser to the President of the United States, issued, on Wednesday (18), a statement marking the 25th anniversary of the first HIV Vaccine Awareness Day.

The institution, the statement says, recognizes past disappointments and looks optimistically to the future development of HIV vaccines.

The statement also mentions that researchers are currently taking advantage of the success of Covid-19 immunizers to take advantage of the variety of new HIV vaccine approaches.

Three months ago, the institute began an early-stage study of three experimental HIV vaccines based on a messenger RNA (mRNA) platform, a technology used in approved Covid-19 vaccines.