Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161201:15:54:00
Torres. let's talk with this experimental vaccine in south africa. how hopeful should we be? >> actually, we should be very hopeful for this one because what that trial is doing, it is basically taking a vaccine trial that they did in 2009 in thailand, and that trial only had 30% effectiveness, meaning it only protected 30% of the people against hiv, so they said it wasn't effective enough, we can't release it to the public yet. let's get one that is better. so they piggybacked on thatten one, did more research and ended up producing this one saying let's put it out there, try it in south afri...