In a Sunday speech in Baltimore, President Clinton should ask researchers to develop a vaccine against AIDS within 10 years. White House officials today were still debating the details of the controversial initiative, sources in the administration, and some researchers fear that any schedule will increase the public's expectations of a cure for the disease.
In April, the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS recommended that Clinton "says an urgent objective to develop a vaccine to prevent HIV / AIDS within a decade." The goal "is clearly feasible and should be considered the highest priority for our government," said the group. But the panel rejected a suggestion by some members that the expenditure for research and vaccine development will tripled to $ 400 million per year. instead, the panel of 33 members from government, industry, academia and advocacy groups called for "a significant and sustained increase in funding."
researchers are divided on the wisdom of a schedule, the president will drop at a Morgan State University commencement address in Baltimore. "It makes no sense to give a date," said panelist Anthony Fauci, director the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases at the panel meeting in April. But panelist Yichen Lu Virus Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, disagreed, saying a date would create "a sense of urgency."
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