The Bush administration won backing from major allies for a proposal to accelerate development of an HIV (news - web sites) vaccine, and President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday proposed spending $15 million to launch it. The $15 million would gather people together at a yet-to-be undetermined medical center in the United States to advance vaccine research, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health (news - web sites). Group of Eight countries meeting at an economic summit this week in Sea Island adopted Bush’s plan for a “Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise” — a blueprint for speeding up development of a vaccine.
