HIV vaccine: Funding "in decline"

United Nations, New York, 20 July 2009 A new United Nations-backed report on investment in HIV prevention research in 2008 finds that funding levels for a possible vaccine for the virus have decreased for the first time since investment trends have been tracked.

The report Adapting to Realities: Trends in HIV Prevention Research Funding 2000 to 2008 notes that this trend may have been influenced by shifts in scientific priorities, the global economic downturn and competition for various health issues.

Despite the decrease, the overall trend since 2000 has been of greater investment for experimental biomedical prevention strategies, adds the report, prepared by the HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Resource Tracking Working Group, of which the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is a member.

Adapting to Realities: Trends in HIV Prevention Research Funding 2000 to 2008 Report:
http://hivresourcetracking.org/downloads/adapting_to_realities_rt_report.july...

UNAIDS Web site:
http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp

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