[HN Gopher] The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
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       The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
        
       Author : sohkamyung
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2025-08-02 09:20 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wired.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
        
       | znpy wrote:
       | Archive link: https://archive.ph/DtYEQ
        
       | pitched wrote:
       | > a previous commitment from the National Institutes of Health to
       | support a clinical trial of the novel therapy in HIV-infected
       | children being withdrawn
       | 
       | When seeking funding as a scientist, do they have to only ask
       | their own government or is it possible to get a different country
       | to foot the bill?
        
         | dlachausse wrote:
         | The NIH did the opposite of what you're asking for by using
         | their funding to do coronavirus gain of function research in
         | Wuhan Institute of Virology, so it's possible.
         | 
         | https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab...
        
           | victorbjorklund wrote:
           | How is that the opposite? It is exactly the same. A govt
           | funding research in another country.
        
             | metalman wrote:
             | there are not any real rules, certain indivuals in academia
             | in certain institutions have what amounts to feudal
             | fiefdoms, and most certainly do.whatever they want with
             | there funding, with few or no questions asked, as it is
             | simply a question of liability shedding by exporting all
             | the ethics and saftey concerns....., and getting useable
             | data back though the serindipitous discovery as outlined in
             | the article liked at the top, is just the kind of thing
             | that can be published and trotted out as a feel good
             | example of just how great science is
        
         | Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote:
         | Depending on the institution they work for, different rules may
         | apply. But in general, scientists would be encouraged to seek
         | funding from wherever it is available.
        
         | victorbjorklund wrote:
         | Probably way harder to convice govts to give their limited
         | amount of grants to foreign universities instead of their own.
         | It is not like this is the only important science to be funded.
         | If you choose to fund this - then it means you need to not fund
         | something else.
        
         | gus_massa wrote:
         | I think it's rare without strings.
         | 
         | There are some cooperation grants, where you must have
         | researchers from two countries (where you are and where the
         | money comes from) and perhaps part of the money must be used to
         | pay travel and stays of some of the researches in the other
         | country, in both directions.
        
       | AtlasBarfed wrote:
       | Wasn't HIV supposed to be more difficult than the common flu?
       | 
       | Which begs another question
        
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