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"Gates gives RM1bil to AIDS research"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(21/07/06)
SEATTLE: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced it is awarding
US$287mil (RM1.05bil) in grants over five years to create an international
network of scientists to speed up the development of an AIDS vaccine.
The collaboration is critical to making HIV vaccine development more
efficient, said Dr Nicholas Hellmann, acting director of the Gates
Foundation's HIV, TB and reproductive health programme.
“Unfortunately, developing an effective HIV vaccine has proven to be
tremendously difficult, and despite the committed efforts of many
researchers around the world, progress simply has not been fast enough,” he
said on Wednesday.
Hellmann acknowledged that an effective vaccine may still be 10 years away.
Each of the 165 investigators in 19 countries who will get money had to
agree to share their findings in real time and compare results with others –
even if they had been working on competing projects in the past. — AP
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