IAVI Report Vol. 2, no. 2

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U.S. President Calls for
AIDS Vaccine by 2007
Bill Clinton declares a national
goal and announces the creation
of new NIH vaccine lab, but
questions still remain
-1 -Report from the Conference on
Advances in AIDS Vaccines
A report from the year's
largest conference on
HIV vaccine-related research
-1 -IIV Subtypes May be Irrelevant
-4 -Report Suggests Goat Virus
Neutralizes lIV
-5 -An Interview with
David Baltimore
The head of the NIH's AIDS
Vaccine Advisory Committee and
Nobel laureate talks openly about
the state of HIV vaccine research
IAVI Update
-8 -AIDS in India: An Interview
with Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
A leading Indian researcher
talks about AIDS and vaccine
development in India
-9 -Facts About AIDS in India
-10 -Indo-U.S. Meeting
on HIV Vaccines
-11 -International Call for Action &
List of Endorsing Organizations
-12 -
U. S. President Calls for
AIDS Vaccine by 2007
Reaction Positive, but Questions Emerge About Specific Plans
by David Gold

e reaction to U.S. President Bill Clinton's
VY call for development of an AIDS vaccine by
the year 2007 was overwhelmingly positive,
questions emerged as to what-specific actions the,
United States and other industrialized nations intend
to take to insure that rapid progress is made in HIV
vaccine development.
In a speech at Morgan State University in
Baltimore on 18 May, Clinton called for a commitment "to developing an AIDS vaccine within the
next decade." He noted that meeting the goal "will
take energy, focus and demand great effort from
our greatest minds." The U.S. President also
announced that a new AIDS vaccine research

center would be established at the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
Over the past two years, TAVI has strongly
supported a time-limited goal for development of an
AIDS vaccine, along with G-7 leadership and greater
industry investment in the development efforts. In
testimony before the Presidential Advisory Council
on HIV/AIDS in October, 1996, IAVI Interim President
Seth Berkley called on President Clinton to "publicly
challenge the nation and the world to a time-limited
goal-oriented effort for an HIV vaccine by the year
2005" and to "call on other members of the G-7 to
co-fund and co-support the effort."
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