Gates grant to help with AIDS vaccine research

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is donating $15 million to Baltimore researchers to help move them closer to a vaccine that prevents AIDS.

But Dr. Robert Gallo, who heads the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and who co-discovered the HIV virus that causes AIDS, said the worst thing that could happen is a headline that says: “We have a vaccine for AIDS. That?s not the case.”