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Despite of three decades on HIV research, no successful vaccine could be developed by researchers so far. Modest growth rate in the HIV research field have been witnessed by the world or more explicitly one can say, there are no growth at all in the HIV research field yet after discovery of ART drugs. The pandemic HIV is seen as a means to earn revenue and to attract funds from the funding institutions.
But in case of covid-19, commercialization of pandemic is not possible at all as a rich communities across the world are mainly affected by it resulting into exerting pressure on the researchers to come up with sound covid-19 vaccine within shortest span of time I.e. within a year. If same type of pressure and research monitoring were carried out during last three decades, HIV pandemic could have over from the world.
In the given news article, researchers involved in HIV field are concealing their inefficiency stating that HIV research during last couple of decades are helping to find covid-19 vaccine but they are exposed now and public know the fact very well.
Despite of three decades on HIV research, no successful vaccine could be developed by researchers so far. Modest growth rate in the HIV research field have been witnessed by the world or more explicitly one can say, there are no growth at all in the HIV research field yet after discovery of ART drugs. The pandemic HIV is seen as a means to earn revenue and to attract funds from the funding institutions.
But in case of covid-19, commercialization of pandemic is not possible at all as a rich communities across the world are mainly affected by it resulting into exerting pressure on the researchers to come up with sound covid-19 vaccine within shortest span of time I.e. within a year. If same type of pressure and research monitoring were carried out during last three decades, HIV pandemic could have over from the world.
In the given news article, researchers involved in HIV field are concealing their inefficiency stating that HIV research during last couple of decades are helping to find covid-19 vaccine but they are exposed now and public know the fact very well.