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Less hope for Aids vaccine

2008-10-14 19:18

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Aids deaths pass 25m mark
Aids deaths pass 25m mark

Aids has now killed 25m people around the world, but the number of new infections is slowing sharply, the UN says.

Cape Town - Scientists attending an international Aids conference in the country say the global economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on research funding and add to the problems plaguing the elusive search for a vaccine.

Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says it is impossible to guarantee that a fully effective vaccine will ever be discovered. But he says scientists will never give up trying.

Fauci and the head of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise said on Tuesday they feared that funding for research may dwindle as philanthropic organisations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation feel the squeeze.

- AP

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