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Nature Medicine 12, 865 (2006)
Published online: 27 July 2006 | doi:10.1038/nm0806-865

Ambitious AIDS grants deepen rift between researchers

Paroma Basu1

  1. Madison


HIV vaccine projects are cutting into individual grants, critics say.


One year after the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a project to tackle the obstacles in developing an HIV vaccine, the AIDS community is sorely split between those involved in the multimillion-dollar initiative—and everybody else.The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), a worldwide consortium of researchers, debuted with $14.