"UN Calls for Major Investment Into AIDS Vaccine for Africa"
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"UN Calls for Major Investment Into AIDS Vaccine
for Africa" Agence France Presse (www.afp.com/english/home)
(05/30/02)
Health agencies of the United Nations assert
that the effort to develop an AIDS vaccine for Africa
needs an infusion of $233 million. The money would be used to bolster research
facilities and scientific expertise on the continent. Research for Africa only
accounts for 1.6 percent of the $2.5 billion dollars spend annually on
researching new pharmaceutical products. The African AIDS vaccine situation
will be discussed at an upcoming Cape
Town, South Africa, meeting of donor
governments, scientists, international agencies, and the pharmaceutical
industry.
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