Science Publishes Online Collection About HIV/AIDS Funding

Special Online Collection: HIV/AIDS -- Follow the Money, Science: The July 25 issue of Science includes a special collection that examines how HIV/AIDS funding has been spent over the past 10 years. It also includes two case studies with accompanying videos, as well as perspective pieces that look at progress and challenges of microbicide and HIV vaccine research. The collection also includes related podcast interviews that discuss trends in research funding and the future of vaccine research. Also in the special issue is a collection of Web resources for additional information on HIV/AIDS research and funding. In addition, an editorial from Luis Soto Ramirez of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran in Mexico City, who also is serving as co-chair of the XVII International AIDS Conference, is included in the collection (Science, 7/25). The collection was supported by a Kaiser Family Foundation mini reporting fellowship.

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