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June 27, 2003
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
Push Is Launched to Create Project for AIDS
Vaccine
Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com)
(06/27/03) P. B8; Chase, Marilyn; Bank, David
Leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the AIDS groups of the United Nations and the World Health
Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and other institutions have
joined in a plea for the creation of a global HIV vaccine development program
funded by public organizations. The statement, published Friday in the journal
Science, makes the pronouncement that private industry should not be expected to
develop such a product on its own. A well-coordinated global enterprise
necessary to drive this scientific effort does not exist and must be created,
the letter reads. The authors include two Nobel laureates and officials from
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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