US EditionSouth Africa: It's The 'Donald Disease' That's Making Us Sick
- The US Department of Health and Human Services announced it will not extend funding for the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development, impacting vital vaccine research led by Duke Health and Scripps Research Institute.
- According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, there were 37,490 people living with HIV in North Carolina as of December 2023, highlighting ongoing health challenges despite some global declines.
- Health experts expressed concerns that funding cuts will hinder progress against HIV, stating, "Without funding, the major thing that we're doing is slowing innovation."
- Research for an effective HIV vaccine is now at risk, with experts noting, "We've begun to see light at the end of the tunnel after many years of research.
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South Africa: It's The 'Donald disease' That's Making Us Sick
As politicians, activists and researchers duke it out from labs and clinics and press conferences, those who have the most to lose from the HIV funding cuts told Bhekisisa they have been left to fend for themselves. Which is bad news for all of us.
Millions of doses of breakthrough HIV jab at risk over Trump’s aid cuts
The funding for 2 million people to receive the twice-yearly preventative treatment lenacapavir is ‘receding in the chaos’ of the US president’s decision, the doctor behind the trial of the drug tells Rachel Schraer
Trump and RFK mark Pride month by killing funding for HIV vaccine research
Just in time for Pride month, President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have apparently decided it’s a good time to sentence more people to death in the future. That will be the result of the administration’s $258 million cut to HIV vaccine research, according to experts in the field. “The HIV pandemic will never be ended without a vaccine,” Cornell University researcher John Moore told the New York Times, which broke t…
Trump guts $258 million in funding for HIV vaccine research
President Donald Trump has cut $258 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget that funded researchers working to create an HIV vaccine, CBS News reports.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. Researchers were told Friday by officials from the National Institutes of Health that the HHS would not renew funding for programs at Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the…
Trump Administration's HHS Terminating Multiple HIV Vaccine Studies
The HHS's decision, prioritizing existing prevention strategies over continued investment in vaccine innovation may be the most scientifically sound move any administration has made in the 40 year quest for the elusive vaccine. The post Trump Administration’s HHS Terminating Multiple HIV Vaccine Studies first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
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