How many more vaccine failures does Africa need foisted upon it? Trying to convince people there to use this new technology vaccine against corona after this technology failed to produce promising lasting result, (sound familiar?) on a HIV vaccine developed with this technology is going to be a hard sell. Not to mention another vaccine they developed for HIV that actually made the illness worse, (again, sound familiar?)

The trial was funded by Johnson & Johnson, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

The vaccine relied on an adenovirus called Ad26, modified to carry fragments of four H.I.V. subtypes into the body in hopes of provoking an immune response that might defend against infection.

Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC, an advocacy group that lobbies for AIDS prevention and treatment, said the cancellation of the trial was a “reality check” amid excitement about new vaccine technologies.

Expect Mitchell Warren to be banished and fact checked for his assertion that this new vaccine technology need a reality check.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/health/hiv-vaccine-south-africa.html