Kalam for scientific estimate of HIV affected

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Kalam for scientific estimate of HIV affected

TIMES NEWS NETWORK: [ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2002 01:38:53 AM ]

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NEW DELHI: In what could be seen as scepticism towards available government

figures, President Abdul Kalam has said that a scientific estimate of the

number of people living with HIV needs to be done to know the trend of the

AIDS epidemic.

President Kalam was speaking at an interaction for the development of an

AIDS vaccine specific to the Indian strain at the request of the

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) on Monday. He stressed on

cross-pollination of ideas and research from across the globe to speed up

the development of an AIDS vaccine.

He said for developing an AIDS vaccine, there was a need to free the

scientific community from bureaucracy and empower young scientists to carry

out the research.

At the meeting, which lasted almost an hour, the President said there was a

need for a multi-pronged approach to vaccine development. He said research

and development of several vaccines should be pursued simultaneously through

several collaborators.

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