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> USAID funding for AIDS research wasn’t given to another organisation. USAID isn't clinical trials, it's treatment subsidies in foreign countries and studies
by AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> USAID funding for AIDS research wasn’t given to another organisation.
USAID isn't clinical trials, it's treatment subsidies in foreign countries and studies on the administrative efficiency of foreign healthcare bureaucracies.
> Similarly, right now, actual research is being halted
Obviously if you reallocate funding from trial A to trial B, trial A loses its funding. Whether this is a net cost or benefit depends on how they compare with each other.
It also depends on how institutions respond. If Harvard is doing trials A and C and that funding moves to trials B and D somewhere else, and as a result trial A gets canceled but Harvard chooses to continue to fund trial C out of its endowment, you now have three trials going instead of two. Maybe that's better. I doubt they were doing that on purpose, but if that's the result, it isn't necessarily bad.
- Retric 2y ago> USAID isn't clinical trials, it's treatment subsidies in foreign countries and studies on the administrative efficiency of foreign healthcare bureaucracies. That’s not completely accurate. https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/interviews/usaid-sponsors-agencies-foundations-fill-funding-gap/ https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/interviews/usaid-sponsor... Established in 1961, USAID is used to fund various projects including clinical trials for vaccines and therapeutics in lower-middle-income countries, as well as elsewhere worldwide. The organisation has been used to find research into human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, among other diseases and research efforts. The sudden pull of funding has meant trials have been suspended until trial sponsors seek alternative methods of funding to restart studies.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoI guess I should say it's predominantly not clinical trials.
- Volundr 2y ago> Obviously if you reallocate funding from trial A to trial B, trial A loses its funding If this is happening, what organization are they relocating funding to?
- matthewdgreen 2y agoThe money is being cut, it is not being reallocated. Even if it was (and again, it is not!) you can’t magically re-create the staff doing cancer research at Johns Hopkins by writing bigger checks to U. of Florida. Those projects just die.