In January 2025, Linda-Gail Bekker stood inside a vaccine manufacturing plant and allowed herself to believe that the first HIV vaccine candidate conceived through African science and led by Africans might finally become a reality.
Key takeaways
HIV has stubbornly resisted prevention via a vaccine. But in mRNA, scientists think they have finally found a technology to develop one.
mRNA, which was used for the successful Covid vaccines, is a way to agilely iterate and develop new candidate vaccines quickly.
Funding for HIV research has been yanked away by the Trump adminis...
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