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World’s largest research funder lifts ban on South Africa

Many clinical trials were halted, and many researchers were retrenched when the NIH stopped funding

The United States National Institutes of Health has lifted its ban nearly 18 months after an order to stop work with South Africa created a crisis for HIV and TB research. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee

The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) has lifted its ban nearly 18 months after an order to stop work with South Africa.
The funding ban created a crisis for HIV and TB research, including NIH grants and US Agency for International Development aid.
Many of the world’s major advances over the past two decades in understanding the science of HIV arose from South African scientists and from studies conducted here, the vast majority of them funded by the NIH.

The United States National…

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