AIDS Vaccine Testing at Crossroads

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Tue, 03/25/2008 - 23:00

The leaders of the federal government's effort to develop an AIDS vaccine said yesterday that more of their budget needs to be spent on basic lab research and less on testing the current crop of vaccines, none of which has proved useful in human trials.

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