Trump Administration Cancels Research Into HIV Vax

The New York Times reports:

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.

“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. “The H.I.V. pandemic will never be ended without a vaccine, so killing research on one will end up killing people,” said John Moore, an H.I.V. researcher at Weill Cornell Medical in New York.

The Trump administration also shut down the H.I.V. prevention division of the CDC, which provided funds to states and territories for H.I.V. prevention and for detecting and responding to H.I.V. outbreaks.

Read the full article. You will recall that Kennedy has claimed that AIDS is caused by poppers.