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Poor funding hampers AIDS vaccine research - Lewis

    JOHANNESBURG

    The global pursuit of a vaccine against HIV/AIDS is failing due to a lack of funds and commitment, a delegation of researchers heard on Tuesday.

    Addressing the '2005 AIDS Vaccine International Conference' in Montreal, Canada, Stephen Lewis the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa urged scientists to emerge from their laboratories to become champions for the cause.

    "The pursuit is in jeopardy. Your collective voices must be heard on the funding dimensions of a vaccine. It can't be left solely to activists. You're the influential professionals. You should give no quarter. The world depends on it," he said.

    Lewis noted that vaccine research had received only US $640 million in 2004, about half of the amount that was needed.

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