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Trump Administration Cuts $258M Program Crucial To Discovering HIV Vaccines. The lack of funding is expected to set back decades' worth of progress against HIV, according to public health experts.
The lack of funding is expected to set back decades' worth of progress against HIV, according to public health experts.
The Trump administration's removal of funding for HIV vaccine research and development is the latest in their wide-reaching attacks on efforts to mitigate a virus that around 40 million people live with worldwide. According to the Times, the two research programs, funded from seven-year awards made back in 2019, “focused on so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies, which have been shown in animal studies to provide long-lasting protection against exposure to multiple H.I.V. In January, Trump’s team halted disbursement of funds from Pepfar, or the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the $7.5 billion program that supplied most of the treatment for HIV in Africa and developing countries around the world.
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