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Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. The peer-reviewed journal, first published in 1880 is circulated weekly and has a print subscriber base of around 130,000. Because institutional subscriptions and online access serve a larger audience, its estimated readership is one million people.

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Read Science, July 25, 2008 Online

HIV/AIDS: Money Matters
Leslie Roberts and Barbara Jasny

Over the past decade, funding for HIV/AIDS research and treatment in low- and middle-income countries has exploded, jumping more than 20-fold to $10 billion last year. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest funder of basic research, also doubled its budget to nearly $3 billion.

In a 6-month investigation, Science correspondent Jon Cohen followed the money, looking at how these dollars have been divvied up and what they have accomplished, how countries have dealt with this sudden influx of cash, and who's minding the store and what happens when abuses occur.

He found that the billions of dollars the major funders have spent have been concentrated in a few countries--often for legitimate reasons--but not necessarily in the countries with the worst epidemics. And despite the massive influx of funds, the number of people in need of anti-HIV drugs continues to climb: a reflection of the treatment's success but also of the failure of prevention efforts. All of this raises unsettling questions about whether resources can keep up with future demands. ...

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