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As COVID-19 vaccination begins around the world, UNAIDS spoke to Peter Godfrey-Faussett, UNAIDS Senior Science Adviser and Professor of International Health and Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, about what is holding up an HIV vaccine.
Many people are asking, “How was a COVID-19 vaccine found so quickly?”
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the virus that causes COVID-19, jumped from animals into humans in 2019. Whereas for HIV, that jump occurred 100 years ago in around the 1920s, and it became a problem in the 1980s when it started spreading among humans to a much greater extent.
By Robert Tapfumaneyi
CONTROVERSIAL Harare medical doctor Jack Stone is under fire for advocating off-label therapies she is offering to patients despite lack of clinical evidence the medicine is safe and effective.
Stone is advocating a worrying combination of therapy for patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and Covid-19.
In a letter of complaint to Ms Mwakutuya, the Registrar of Medical and Dental professional Council of Zimbabwe signed by Professor Rashida Ferrand, a Specialist Physician and Professor of International Health and Associate Professor Katharina Kranzer, an Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, the health professionals said Stone’s actions needed urgent review.
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