AIDS vaccine funding down l0% in 2008.

IAS conference Capetown South Africa July l9-22 2009

Funding for AIDS vaccine research fell by l0% in 2008, the first decline in a decade, according to figures released by the HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Resource Tracking Working Group.

This data was not unexpected. With the failure of the Gov-Merc vaccine trial in Africa known as the Step trial and the CDC calling for a halt in HIV/AIDS Vaccines trials until some more basic research on the virus was completed a vaccine for HIV seems now remote in the near future.