The Trump administration has cancelled a $258 million research program whose work was critical to the search for an HIV vaccine.
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
[image or embed] — The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
From the New York Times:
The program’s elimination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V.-related initiatives, and to prevention of the disease in particular.
Separately, the N.I.H. also paused funding for a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine made by Moderna.
The N.I.H. terminated several grants related to PrEP, the regimen of preventive drugs that are highly effective in thwarting H.I.V. infection.
The Trump administration also shut down the H.I.V. prevention division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided funds to states and territories for H.I.V. prevention and for detecting and responding to H.I.V. outbreaks
It’s worth noting that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of false claims that poppers cause AIDS. He’s also blamed “sexual confusion [and] gender confusion” in children on “endocrine disruptors” in U.S. drinking water,
So, there’s that…
John Moore, an H.I.V. researcher at Weill Cornell Medical in New York, told the Times, “The H.I.V. pandemic will never be ended without a vaccine, so killing research on one will end up killing people.”
Read more at the Times (gift link).
We were so so close to ending HIV entirely with antiviral medications, including a long-lasting preventative shot, and advances in vaccines
[image or embed] — Melody Schreiber (@melodyschreiber.com) May 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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