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Two field tests of the most promising vaccines against the HIV virus that causes AIDS not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected. This has sent the two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine into crisis. Numerous experts are questioning both the scientific premises and the overall strategy of the nearly $500 million in AIDS vaccine research funded annually by the U.S. government. This is on the same level of catastrophe as the Challenger disaster” that destroyed a NASA space shuttle, said Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, and head of the Institute for Human Virology in Baltimore.