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IAVI, CDC and USMHRP release new data redefining laboratory reference ranges in Africa

Leading researchers from IAVI, CDC and the USMHRP presented final results today from a collection of independent studies re-examining the medical criteria for including African volunteers in AIDS vaccine trials. The findings, presented at the AIDS Vaccine 2007 Conference in Seattle, suggest that many healthy southern and east Africans have, in the past, been excluded from participating in trials based on laboratory reference ranges that were developed for Western populations, and may not be appropriate locally.

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