Gates commits $287 million for AIDS vaccine.

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Gates commits $287 million for AIDS vaccine Foundation's grants will be awarded over 5 years to speed development http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13949402/ Updated: 7:23 a.m. ET July 20, 2006 SEATTLE - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it’s awarding $287 million in grants over five years to create an international network of scientists to speed up the development of an AIDS

vaccine. The collaboration is critical to making HIV vaccine development more efficient, said Dr. Nicholas Hellmann, acting director of the Gates Foundation’s HIV, TB and reproductive health program. “Unfortunately, developing an effective HIV vaccine has proven to be tremendously difficult, and despite the committed efforts of many researchers around the world, progress simply has not been fast enough,” he said. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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