Related: Dolly Parton gave a million dollars to help fund the new coronavirus vaccine & America is gratefulThe aforementioned critics often claim that the lack of an HIV vaccine is due to the fact that HIV has most affected men and trans women who have sex with men, Black people, people of color, and intravenous drug users — marginalized people who tend to have less money and political power.
Thus, the lack of an HIV vaccine can seem like a conspiratorial way to let these communities die off.However, a big part of the reason that an HIV vaccine hasn’t been developed, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is that the virus “mutates rapidly and has unique ways of evading the immune system.”At present,.