The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $287 million in grants to spur development of an HIV vaccine. Sixteen scientific teams in 19 countries will work collaboratively toward the development of an HIV vaccine. The huge foundation has now awarded more than half a billion dollars toward that goal. NIH, meanwhile, has contributed more than $3.4 billion over the past 20 years to an HIV vaccine, which has remained elusive as millions of people around the globe have died of AIDS.
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