Professor Abdullah Ely
“Stop all work” – U.S. aid cuts derail HIV vaccine trials in South Africa
Just days before South African scientists were set to launch clinical trials of a promising HIV vaccine, their progress was abruptly halted. An email landed in their inboxes, brief and devastating: “Stop all work.” The U.S. government, under President Donald Trump, was pulling its funding. The blow came as researchers prepared to roll out the…
