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ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

Clinton calls for HIV vaccine

December 23, 1996 8:00 AM UTC

WASHINGTON - The White House last week unveiled a "National AIDS Strategy that breaks new rhetorical ground - the Clinton administration for the first time formally set goals of developing a vaccine to prevent AIDS, drugs to cure the disease and reducing the rate of new infections to zero - but does not signal a significant departure from current programs or finances.

The report primarily describes accomplishments in the past four years in developing AIDS treatments, prevention initiatives and programs for funding access to drugs...