Monday, December 26, 2005

AIDS Chief: Drug Companies Won't Create a Vaccine

AIDS Chief: Drug Companies Won't Create a Vaccine

The joys of private sector medicine:

In an unusually candid admission, the federal chief of AIDS research says he believes drug companies don't have an incentive to create a vaccine for the HIV and are likely to wait to profit from it after the government develops one...

"The science is difficult, and the developing countries that need a vaccine most are least able to pay."

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