Read every word of @stephanienolen.bsky.social 's story on how the demolition of #USAID, #CDC, and #PEPFAR is setting research back years and harming trial volunteers, some of whom are on experimental treatments and have lost access to care shd something go wrong. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h... - ThreadSky

mbarber.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Read every word of @stephanienolen.bsky.social 's story on how the demolition of #USAID, #CDC, and #PEPFAR is setting research back years and harming trial volunteers, some of whom are on experimental treatments and have lost access to care shd something go wrong. 1/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/usaid-clinical-trials-funding-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.9RLE.FchWQG7dLw3N&smid=url-share

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mbarber.bsky.social•20 days ago

The stop-work order was so immediate & sweeping that the research staff wd be violating it if they helped the women remove the rings. But Dr. Mansoor, a scientist with the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), decided she and her team would do so anyway. 2/

mbarber.bsky.social•20 days ago

“My first thought when I saw this order was, There are rings in people’s bodies and you cannot leave them,” Dr. Mansoor said. “For me ethics and participants come first. There is a line.” 3/

mbarber.bsky.social•20 days ago

In England, abt 100 people have been inoculated with an experimental malaria vaccine in 2 clinical trials. Now, they no longer have access to the clinical trial staff if that vaccine were to cause an adverse reaction 2/.

Malaria remains a top global killer of children; 600k died in 2023. 4/

mbarber.bsky.social•20 days ago

Dr. Hillier was until this week director of a 5-year, $125 million trial funded by USAID to test the safety and efficacy of 6 new HIV products.

With the study suspended, she and her colleague cannot process biological samples, analyze the data they have already collected, or communicate findings.5/

mbarber.bsky.social•20 days ago

CATALYST participants were receiving bimonthly injections. Without regular injections, participants will not have enough cabotegravir to stop a new infection, but there will be enough in their systems that, if they were to contract the virus, could easily mutate to become drug-resistant. 6/

mbarber.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is a significant threat to the trial volunteers and also to the millions of PLHIV bc cabotegravir is closely related to a drug that is already used worldwide as standard treatment. Development of resistance wd be catastrophic, Dr. Ngure said: “It’s wrong on so many levels— you can’t just stop.”

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