Aids Vaccine

Aids Vaccine: A comparison of Essex Max and Grant Zeng Literature on Aids and Vaccine Development
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In historical perspective, vaccines have been considered as weapons to fighting infectious and dangerous diseases such as polio, small pox and yellow fever. However Aids vaccines have not been fully realized. This may be attributed to the fact that HIV virus has peculiar ways of evading the immune system and the body does not harbor an effective immune response against the virus. As a consequence, researchers have yet to postulate a clear picture on how the virus could be better protected by use of vaccines or other immunization mechanisms.
There is indeed a large extent of literature concerning the search for Aids vaccines. Even though the accessibility of such a vaccine for general use has not been realized, some authors and researchers as looked at queries such as the impact which such a vaccine could pose to Aids vaccines, of significant interest have been on the strategies to be deployed for using such a vaccine once it is made available in the market. In this paper, we evaluate the literature on these issues by Essex Max and Grant Zeng. We indicate that Essex Max’s literature is eloquent, understandable, and straight to the point and rightly tackles the issues at hand.
In comparison to Grant Zeng, Essex Max’s literature is more of focused specifically in one continent i.e. Asia. He also presents specific figures and percentages of the prevalence of this Aids pandemic in different countries such as China, India, and Hong Kong and so on. Max Essex’s piece appears to cover the issues of Aids in Asian perspective in a very comprehensive manner and relevant to day’s aspects. Owing to its professional style, these materials could be even more resourceful to other professionals and public health practitioners. Moreover, the book offers much information regarding diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and the impact caused by Aids in Asian perspective. Essex tackles this topic in a professional manner in that, he provides a molecular epidemiology of HIV/ AIDS, surveillance and the projected scenarios of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Additionally, the author also evaluates the collaborative efforts that have been involved in various nations in the fight against this pandemic.
In contrast to that, Grant Zeng literature only talks about the plans of developing the HIV/ AIDS vaccine. He does not provide the overview of the epidemic in any particular nation, diagnosis and or impact of such or the related vaccine much like Essex. Readers of this piece will only understand and know the costs and expenses that are associated with researching, development, and therapeutic treatment of this vaccine. Although it is a good thing for readers to understand the development and progress of HIV vaccine trial process, it is another to know how such a vaccine would contribute to reducing the effects of this epidemic. The piece of Zeng has not provided an in-depth and molecular epidemiology of the HIV pandemic which could be referred to by professionals or any other person, whether in diagnosing, prevention, or treatment options.
On another note, Max Essex’s piece was published at EBSCO publishing website while that of Zeng wrote his at yahoo news. Ebscohost is an online library data base where scholarly j...