Gates Foundation funds study of HIV drug's effectiveness
From Wednesday, October 30, 2002
The Gates Foundation continues to do good work vis a vis the HIV epidemic according to this Bloomberg story in the San Jose Mercury News. I believe the foundation has even declared that were a vaccine to be found, they would help get it distributed throughout Africa (and hopefully the rest of the world including the US).
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $6.5 million grant to an international health organization to evaluate Gilead Sciences' drug Viread as an AIDS-prevention treatment.
The Gates Foundation award to Family Health International will help fund clinical trials testing Viread in poor countries with high rates of the disease.
Viread won U.S. approval last year after studies showed it works in patients with drug-resistant forms of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The studies will evaluate the drug's safety and effectiveness in blocking HIV infection in sexually active adults who aren't infected though may be exposed to the virus, the Gates foundation said.