The efforts to find an effective HIV vaccine haven’t been looking too good lately, but I just read an article about how researchers uncovered something that may be very helpful in creating a vaccine… Not that it’s going to happen tomorrow, but it’s better than nothing… And if nothing else, the knowledge from vaccine research helps create even more effective treatments for people who are poz…

While I’d still say if HIV infection is very likely for you, you may want to try to get the mildest strain you can. For the bulk of you who are likely to stay neg, try to stay that way as long as you can (without giving up the sex you enjoy)… I had a lover who died a year before protease inhibitors came out. If he had been been pozzed a year later he’d probably still be alive 13 years later.

I know I take risks, and I’m generally OK with them. I know an effective vaccine isn’t right around the corner and with my other medical issues I also know I can’t participate in a vaccine trial – so I won’t be one of the early ones to be vaccinated. Still, in the back of my mind I think about how it would be a bitch if I became poz and a vaccine came out a year later…