Fauci also knows what an unsung debt the Covid-19 response owes to HIV research. “It’s no accident that a lot of people who jumped in to address Covid right away are people who are involved in HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, director of global health & HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. In March last year, Fauci began overseeing the retooling of three major HIV global clinical trials networks into the Covid-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN). Myron Cohen, director of the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina, speaks in Paris. Fauci said he holds out hope that the three HIV vaccines in advanced clinical trials will prove at least 50% efficacious, justifying a global rollout.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2021 06:00 UTC