Drug Trials Without the Drugs?

摘要

Luis Montaner, an AIDS researcher at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received word last month from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that a grant proposal he had submitted to stage a novel drug study in South Africa had come through peer review with flying colors. But rather than celebrating their success, Montaner and his collaborators find themselves all dressed up with nowhere to go: They can't afford the fare. They have been told that NIH will not pay for the anti-HIV drugs the researchers are planning to test.