recently announced that its experimental HIV vaccine failed to prevent infections in clinical trials. The news comes as a big disappointment to public health activists and patients around the globe.But there's still cause for optimism.
Moderna just started testing its own HIV vaccine, based on the same mRNA technology used in its highly effective COVID-19 shot.
And Johnson & Johnson continues to work on a different HIV vaccine. If one of these inoculations proves successful, the plague that has taken 32 million lives so far could finally end.
We're living in a Golden Age of medical innovation. The mRNA platforms developed by companies like Moderna and Pfizer could revolutionize health care — so long as policymakers don't inadvertently.