Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V. research and programs to prevent the disease.

The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.

Officials from the H.I.V. division of the National Institutes of Health delivered the news on Friday to the program’s two leaders, at Duke University and the Scripps Research Institute.

Both teams were collaborating with numerous other research partners. The work was broadly applicable to a wide range of treatments for other illnesses, from Covid drugs to snake antivenom and therapies for autoimmune diseases.

“The consortia for H.I.V./AIDS vaccine development and immunology was reviewed by N.I.H. leadership, which does not support it moving forward,” said a senior official at the agency who was not authorized to speak on the matter and asked not to be identified.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.Wm_5.kqZEPFbZ-Zph&smid=url-share

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[TnDem]

1. re: AIDS treatments

One thing is definitely for sure....AZT did far more harm than good.

It seems really odd that an HIV actual vaccine that works hasn't been discovered in 45 years of many millions of deaths and AIDS hospitalizations, and yet other vaccines suddenly "work" in a few months?

Do any critical thinkers find that odd?

[harumph]

3. Yes. I do find that odd.

[tulipsandroses]

2. We are going to be left behind while the world moves on. I hope we don't experience too much brain drain

while these assholes do their damage to research.