Search for AIDS cure pushes ahead despite setbacks

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Search for AIDS cure pushes ahead despite setbacks

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/search-aids-cure-pushes-ahead-despite-setbacks-061529985.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Q_PFyNf5T.ePJviQKf1HaQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/cf72eefa26ad923cb6b72857c6d8d288299b684a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of blood samples from an HIV screening test" align="left" title="File photo of blood samples from an HIV screening test" border="0" /></a>Scientists on Saturday vowed to press ahead with their quest for a cure for AIDS, despite losing a veteran colleague and suffering a setback in research. Addressing a symposium on the search for a cure, Nobel prize winner Francoise Barre-Sinoussi said the death of Joep Lange, a frontline scientist in the 33-year war on AIDS, was a major setback. &quot;I am convinced that he, like the other members of the HIV community that were in that plane, would have encouraged us to go on.&quot; Barre-Sinoussi, who co-discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes AIDS, launched the cure campaign several years ago amid skepticism by some that the goal could ever be attainable.</p><br clear="all"/>

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