Globalized Disease

"Un vaccin réduisant les risques d'infection par le virus VIH, le virus a l'origine du Sida, a été testé sur 16.000 volontaires en Thailande. Financé par l'armée américaine, le vaccin permet de réduire les risques d'infection de plus de 30%. La nouvelle a été accueillie avec satisfaction par les militants de la lutte contre le Sida." BBC News September 24, 2009

The Experiment:
The assumption rests in the idea that the vaccine will ward off HIV in those who are positive with AIDS.

The Contenders:
American Army
16,000 HIV-infected Thai volunteers

The Result:
The militants administering the test welcome the vaccine with satisfaction. Critics of the vaccine voice that the vaccine is a step in the wrong direction; that such a "progressive" vaccine could encourage the behavior, or strip the consequences from the behavior that led to contracting AIDS in the first place. Still others say that such vaccine and subsequent results reveal our progression in understanding the disease and its outliers.

The oddity of it all is the context for the experiment. An american army, an american budget, 16,000 AIDS-positive Thai, and all of which are covered in French news. I could not find this story headlining any where else.