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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Officials with the West Virginia First Foundation met Monday to begin the process of setting up the organization tasked with addressing the states opioid crisis.

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Officials with the West Virginia First Foundation met Monday to begin the process of setting up the organization tasked with addressing the state’s opioid crisis.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey attended a meeting in Morgantown on Thursday to elect the Region Four Director for the West Virginia First Foundation, a project that looks to attack West Virginia's drug epidemic.

MORGANTOWN — Government officials from the 13 counties that make up region 4 in North Central West Virginia selected Jonathan Board as their nominee to the West Virginia First Foundation.

The foundation will handle 72.5 percent of the state’s settlement funds, while 24.5 percent will go to local governments. The remaining three percent will be held by the state in escrow to cover any outstanding attorney’s fees.

On Wednesday, all of the regional host counties for the West Virginia First Foundation gathered together to discuss running the election meeting.

Scientists have spent years trying to develop an effective HIV vaccine, but none have proven successful. Based on findings from a recently published study, a research team may have put science one step closer to that goal.

Since it was identified in 1984 as the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has infected more than 80 million people and been responsible for some 40 million deaths worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Scientists have spent years trying to develop an effective HIV vaccine, but none have proven successful. Based on findings from a recently published study, a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led research team may have put science one step closer to that goal.

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