The Rise and Fall of Projet SIDA

@article{Cohen1997TheRA,
  title={The Rise and Fall of Projet SIDA},
  author={Jon Cohen},
  journal={Science},
  year={1997},
  volume={278},
  pages={1565 - 1568}
}
  • Jon Cohen
  • Published 1 November 1997
  • Medicine
  • Science
KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO-- An international research project here, jointly funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Belgium9s Institute of Tropical Medicine, provided many early insights into AIDS. Projet SIDA (French for AIDS Project) had at its peak a $4 million budget and has been the source of 120 publications and more than 1000 abstracts to date. Its premature demise in 1991, when… 
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