HIV VACCINE: The Road To Development
With 15,000 people around the world becoming infected with HIV each day, the need for a protective vaccine is self evident. President Clinton has promised a vaccine within a decade. Is that realistic? In this week's Stryker's Corner, California Healthline's Jeff Stryker sorts out the scientific, financial, and ethical stumbling blocks to vaccine development with Margaret Johnston, who next month becomes vaccine coordinator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
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