GENEVA, Aug 30 (AFP) - Some 800 researchers gathered for an international AIDS conference in Switzerland called on Monday for up to 15 billion dollars (12.5 billion euros) over the next decade to develop a vaccine against AIDS.
The scientists attending the AIDS Vaccine 2004 Conference in Lausanne appealed in a communique for "an increased political and financial commitment to facilitate the development of preventive and therapeutic AIDS vaccines."
They estimated that it would take 10 to 15 billion dollars for the clinical development of existing vaccine candidates.
The appeal comes ten days after the United States threatened to withhold its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS unless other countries paid in at least 1.1 billion dollars.
Since it was created in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS has raised about three billion dollars instead of the 30 billion dollars projected.
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