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AIDS pioneer addresses African business summit

    JOHANNESBURG

    Drugs alone will not help Africa beat AIDS, Professor Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of the HI virus told the African Business Summit in Baltimore, US, on Thursday.

    Gallo pointed out that merely providing drugs to countries battling the pandemic is not scientifically sound.

    "It's going to give rise to multi-drug resistant strains," the Associated Press quoted Gallo as saying.

    He called for more research on anti-AIDS strategies.

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