<p>The Bush administration won backing from major allies for a proposal to accelerate development of an HIV vaccine, and President Bush on Thursday proposed spending $15 million to launch it.</p><p>The $15 million would gather people together at a yet-to-be undetermined medical center in the United States to advance vaccine research, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.</p><p>Group of Eight countries meeting at an economic summit this week in Sea Island adopted Bush's plan for a "Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise" _ a blueprint for speeding up development of a vaccine. The plan, Fauci said, would:</p><p>_Set up HIV vaccine development centers around the world to coordinate efforts.</p><p>_Work to increase the capacity for manufacturing vaccine.</p><p>_Standardize laboratories' measurement systems around the world so that advances in one lab are usable in others.</p><p>_Build a network of clinics for trials.</p><p>_Allow regulatory authorities in different countries to recognize clinical trials across borders.</p><p>"The body has a lot of trouble handling the HIV virus, which means that there are a lot of scientific problems that we need to solve before we get a vaccine," he said. "The only way we're going to do that is if everybody globally who's working on this works on it in a synergistic way."</p><p>Some 14,000 people are infected with the AIDS virus each day, 5 million a year. And 3 million people die of the disease each year, Fauci said.</p>
