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ArticlePLoS medicine2017

Hope for HIV control in southern Africa: The continued quest for a vaccine.

Linda-Gail Bekker, Glenda E Gray

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Linda-Gail BekkerDesmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Glenda E GraySouth African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

LOC: HIV Vaccine Trials NetworkUM1AI068614 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Dan H. Barouch, Lawrence Corey · 2011 to 2026
$1175.6M
Soweto Clinical Trials UnitUM1AI069453 · NIAID · WITS HEALTH CONSORTIUM (PTY), LTD · PI Glenda E Gray, Lerato Mohapi · 2012 to 2026
$40.9M
NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI068614NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI069453
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a Perspective, Linda-Gail Bekker and Glenda Gray discuss HIV vaccine development.

Indexed as

Africa, SouthernAIDS VaccinesHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansAIDS Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID28245236
PMCPMC5330445

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