hen we chatted with Chiz, who is lovely and Aussie and informed me (when I told him I'm getting my PhD basically in medical research) that someone published a vaccine for HIV today?

YES THEY DID AND THIS IS WHY HE IS MY MOTHERFUCKING FAVORITE.

I mean, it's not a great vaccine and if you do the math, it doesn't really work all that well, but it's a start! (It's also completely possible that the incidences of non-infection were freakish people like my mother, who never contracted HIV during five years of unprotected sex with someone who was HIV+. So.)