A new HIV vaccine will be tested in the DR, according to a front-page story in today’s Hoy newspaper. Yeycy Donastorg, a health specialist working for the Dermatological Institute, revealed the news at a workshop to prepare health workers from Latin America for the new trial. The vaccine will not be made from a live virus, but is rather a genetic replicate of the virus, with some additional proteins that are supposed to produce an immunogenic response. Health personnel from Peru, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic and facilitators from the United States participated in the workshop.