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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rachel Schraer

Millions of doses of ‘pandemic-ending’ HIV jab at risk over Trump’s aid cuts

Professor Linda-Gail Bekker recalls having “shivers” when she found out that not one single woman given a revolutionary new jab in her medical trial had caught HIV.

She told a global Aids summit last year that she “literally burst into tears”. Now, she tells The Independent, that emotion has turned into an “acute sense of despair”.

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