Includes bibliographical references [p. 255 - 256)] and index.

Contents: Background: Timeline -- Why we need AIDS vaccine activism -- Working with communities: 1991 -- Vaccine vs. cure: an HIV-positive perspective -- Experimental science -- Participant issues: A discussion of community concerns -- Consenting adults -- The phases of clinical trials -- Efficacy trials -- Working with communities: 1992 -- Vaccine preparedness studies -- Vaccine scientists -- Is it safe? -- Government regulation of vaccine trials -- HIV vaccines and human rights -- Social, ethical and political considerations, AIDS action foundation working group -- Social harms: NIAID's approach, division, division of AIDS, NIAID -- Securing participant rights in the United States -- Participant's bill of rights, HIVNET National Community Advisory Board -- Post-exposure prophylaxis and vaccine trial participation -- Vaccine trial participation -- Vaccine trials and black Americans -- Women and other socially or economically vulnerable groups -- Ethics of international trials: UNAIDS consultation -- Advocacy: How long it takes -- Plenary address: vaccine advocates forum -- Community advisory boards -- Stages of development -- The HIV vaccine pipeline -- Private-sector AIDS vaccine research in disorder, AVAC -- Report finds Clinton's 10-year goal in jeopardy, AVAC -- Approaches: Vaccine basics -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) -- Vaccine approaches currently in development -- Monkey trials: animal studies for AIDS vaccines -- VaxGen: pushing the envelope -- National institutes of health: ALVAC prime and boost -- The alphabeticals: non-profits that support AIDS vaccines -- Attenuated HIV: Mad doctors an dmedia -- Vancouver debates --