Talk:HVTN 505

Meaning of results
Two sources, NPR and MedPage Today, suggested that the cause of failure for the prior STEP study may be the cause of failure for the current HVTN 505 study. Neither of these sources meet Wikipedia's standard for inclusion of medical content into articles; that standard is at Identifying reliable sources (medicine). The problem is that these statements were made by journalists with no check on the accuracy of the statements rather than by scientists who would have professional authority to make such statements.

However, these are major news sources and their statements did circulate on the Internet. Because of this, I feel that these articles should be included in the reaction section. I also feel that these statements should be balanced by a response from the science community, so I got one from an HVTN representative. She said, "This is completely unfounded, and any news reports could only be speculation. There has been absolutely no analysis of 505 data yet to determine the role of Ad5 in the lack of efficacy that has been seen. It is also somewhat misleading to immediately make a comparison to Step, since these were different vaccines tested in different populations in different parts of the world." I included that in the article. Unfortunately I have no published source to cite.

I feel like this article is better for including the published speculation because people would find that speculation elsewhere on the Internet and expect to see it addressed here. Unfortunately, I know of no published response to this speculation, so the only response available is the semi-private response I shared above. Thoughts from anyone?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   15:06, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Vaccine specifics
What was the vaccine used in the trial? This page seems to be very explicit about the trial design, but I cann't find any specifics about the vaccine itself, other than it used an adenovirus booster. Was it different from the STEP trial vaccine? Can somebody with expert knowledge help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.164.143.201 (talk) 19:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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