But vaccine expert cautions that boosting every 3-6 months is a distraction from improving vaccine uptake.
AidsmapBooster doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines revive antibody levels in people with HIV and response to a booster dose is not affected by CD4 count, Italian researchers reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022) this week.
But at the conference’s opening session, vaccine researcher Professor Dan Barouch questioned whether a strategy of relying on repeated boosters will be either necessary or feasible. He also called for a focus on the whole of the immune response, not just antibodies, when considering which vaccines to use and when boosters should be offered.
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All Aidsmap reports from CROI 2022.
Source : Aidsmap
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