HIV Vaccine

CDC Awards $8 Million Contract To Supplement HIV Vaccine Research

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 8th, 1999

VaxGen, Inc., announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will contribute funds to support additional research at five of the 56 clinics in the United States currently conducting Phase III clinical trials of VaxGen's AIDSVAX vaccine.

The CDC will contribute $2 million annually, for four years, to the selected clinics. The focus of the additional research supported by the contract is "to answer critical questions about how this and future vaccine trials may impact the attitudes and behaviors of both trial participants and the communities involved," according to the CDC.

"The CDC's support of our trial opens key avenues...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (1999-11-08)

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