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Science 14 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5784, p. 159
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5784.159b
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The Bush Administration has relaxed controversial attendance limits it had set for the world's largest AIDS meeting next month. In February, the State Department declared that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could send no more than 50 staffers to the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, half from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Science, 24 February, p. 1086). The policy echoed a similar bar HHS set for the 2004 meeting, which shut out dozens of researchers and drew charges of political interference from lawmakers. After "negotiating" with HHS, says NIH spokesperson John Burklow, NIH will be allowed to send 43 staffers--a compromise between the original 25 and the 77 that NIH had planned to send.




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