Global collaboration with US researchers likely to be set back by years, including on spread of drug-resistant HIV
Mothers and children wait to receive a shot of a malaria vaccine a part of a pilot program in Gisambai, Kenya, 7 March 2023.Mothers and children wait to receive a shot of a malaria vaccine a part of a pilot program in Gisambai, Kenya, 7 March 2023., in just one example of a rippling disruption to health research around the globe since the new US president took power.
Tom Drake, senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, said that the impact of cuts to research funding were less visible and less immediate than the“The advent of malaria vaccines is one of the greatest global health achievements of our time, and is a direct result of funding by the MVDP and many others,” he said.
Prof Kenneth Ngure of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya and president-elect of the International Aids Society, said researchers on projects testing HIV prevention options such as injectable drugs and vaginal rings globally had received stop work orders.
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