Elon Musk's Assault on the Government Has Canceled a Human Trial for a Promising HIV Vaccine
Billionaire Elon Musk's plundering of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is already proving devastating for ongoing, life-saving research. As Science reports, researchers across eight African countries were set to launch a phase 1 clinical trial of two experimental HIV vaccines. But now that foreign aid funding has officially been frozen for at least three months by president Donald Trump's administration, the trial is indefinitely on hold. "The vaccines are in the country," South African Medical Research Council chief scientific officer Glenda Gray told Science. "The regulators have approved the study. [Clinicians] at the sites have been trained." USAID […]
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