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Leading international AIDS institutions have called for a global HIV/AIDS vaccine initiative, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
A policy statement signed recently by two dozen researchers and public-health officials said it was "unrealistic" to expect private industry to shoulder the burden alone.
"A well-coordinated global enterprise necessary to drive this scientific effort does not exist and must be created," the
statement read.
It warned that if HIV/AIDS continued at its current pace without a vaccine, some 45 million new infections could be expected by 2010.
With only seven new vaccine candidates entering clinical trials in 2001 and 2002, attempts to manufacture an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine have failed.
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