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HIV: The next shot

Researchers trying to develop an HIV vaccine have endured two decades of setbacks. Erika Check Hayden meets a veteran still engaged in the fight — and a rookie willing to join in anyway.

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Erika Check Hayden is a senior reporter for Nature based in San Francisco. See Editorial, page 551.

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Check Hayden, E. HIV: The next shot. Nature 454, 565–569 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454565a

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