The decisive health study is suspended as the US government is cut off. Illustration: Lisa Nelson
- The United States is further financed in South Africa for clinical research.
- This happens through at least two processes. The first is to prohibit certain types of foreign grants called subwards (secular effects).
- Second, by not releasing daily updates of grants for clinical research in South Africa.
On May 1, the US National Health Institutes (NIH), a publisher of biotical research in world scale New policy to prohibit all external subwards. As a result, billions of randons in research grants for South African clinical research can be renewed over the next year.
The main recipient of a NIH grant is transferred to the second research group where part of a grant (often abroad). For example, a university in the United States can receive a NIH grant to test the experimental HIV drug. In turn, they can give a little grant money to researchers in South Africa to test the medicinal HIV in a more common country.
Under the new NIH policy this is no longer allowed. The awards directly issued directly to foreign institutions can remain in place, but projects funded by any NIH trust in a foreign subside will not be updated.
South African researchers receive several billion rand in financing of NIH every year, only minorities are coming directly. Thus, the majority of NIH in the country are expected to be effectively canceled for research groups.
The new policy is not retroactive, so researchers do not receive termination, but prevent the update of existing programs. NIH grants are usually given in annual parts. Buyers, who are in the bottom of the 1st, have immediately lost their finances, which has only been to leave several monthly funding for the next part.
As a result of politics, clinical trials financed by a number of active NIH in South Africa are now a stop. Some of these tests have been going on for years and were close to providing answers to the effectiveness of the new HIV and tuberculosis. In many cases, patients were already in experimental treatment – the test workers who watched them will be axle now.
Because the new NIH policy is directed to all foreign sub-grants, there are trials in other regions of the world.
Politics announcement said that NIH has developed a new financial mechanism that will provide direct delivery of all new grants. The announcement clearly says that “If a project has no life without a foreign sub-award, the project will work with the buyer for bilateral termination.”
It is possible that some foreign sub-grants can be reorganized and continue as direct rewards. However, in South Africa, in South Africa, in South Africa, in particular, has hope to finance under a new mechanism.
Sean Wasserman, who is an associate professor in UCT, worked on a clinical trial funded by a NIH sub-premium. He met with him and his team and his team and his team and his awards (in three years) did not update in a way that he met him (in three years). The components of the program operating outside South Africa can be financed in the future, officials told them, but there will be no matter what happened in the country.
“They said that in this very mixed language, all the NIH money in South Africa, South Africa could not be financed in South Africa and other foreign components,” he said.
Significant TB Study has been suspended
The clinical test driven by the Wasserman team explored the new experimental tuberculosis treatment for patients in three months, not ordinary than three months. If Regimen succeeds (both in the study of Wasserman and in future trials), simplifying the full process of patients, the TB treatment is twice the time.
A short treatment regime will not only increase the observance in South Africa, but also faces Sporadic in the United States TB has hit in the regions of the country.
Wasserman’s research was funded from NIH through the lower grant. The main buyer, in turn, was the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in Boston, which was two sub grants: one another can test the regime against patients in Cape Town, and the researchers in Haiti. NIH agreed to finance it in four years.
As part of the court, the Wasserman team hired 52 participants on a site on a site.
On May 1, the research was due to receiving the fourth and final daily part of the day. But one night before, NIH officials said this did not happen to the Wasserman team. Instead, Wasserman says that they need to stop all activities on the South African website, “he said.
For Wasserman, a clinical judgment cutting a clinical judgment that is actively active. “Members of the staff working on this grant, mostly there is nothing that is not a source of salary from May 1,” he says. “And we have to take care of regular treatment (regimens), which is our revised employees, which is none of it, and we have no one for it, because we cannot afford test workers.”
Wasserman said patients in court should now be able to pass six months of tuberculosis. Although they start taking experience treatment, they had to start this process from the beginning.
This is unfair, Wasserman says, because it will first receive more domestic treatment for a longer part of the court. “Tuberculosis are not easy to get treatment, and they did not require concern to deal with health services, lose income and concern.”
The Wasserman team is not the only one who faces these dilemmas. CEO of the South African Medical Research Council Professor NTOBEKO NTUSI (SAMRC), received several abolitions of the agency’s “New ban” ” According to him, most of the grants sent to HIV were for clinical trials.
The ban on the bottom grants is expected to have a global scale – figures Nature Just suggest that the minority of foreign NiH grants is direct.
It is the same in South Africa, although there is some uncertainty on exact numbers. Recently nthusi carefully explained In South Africa, around the NIH in R3, only a minority caused directly from the minority. Most of the global researchers who have collaborated on a project of either solves or South Africa come through situations.
Meanwhile Tell me recently It takes a direct grant, which is less than one billion in less than one billion in South Africa less than one billion.
NTUSI, SAMRC’s all NIH sons and network learning grants are suspended or canceled, ie the vast majority of NIH financing, said that NIH funding is. (Before the new policy announcement, Scientific journal Nets in South Africa have not been allowed to use NIH funds of the networks.
Direct grant also occupies
South Africa’s direct NIH grants also seem to be effectively stopped. A South African researcher is paid for the spotlight and surface data (direct NIH awards) this year, but it was not just that it did not happen. In contact with NIH, the authorities simply said it would not be reported.
Thus, even if NIH has never been given no termination notices, the study has been suspended effectively. At the same time, according to the researcher, the researcher, who spoke about the conditions of anonymity, takes place at the same time.
Internal on March 25 Memoleaked Nature and OpinionTut institutes and centers of “All Awards in the Organizations of South Africa are instructions. This order appears to be effective in action.
Endless waves of grant cuts
The current line of NIH grants is the most recent obstacle to South African medical researchers this year.
The US International Development Agency (USAID) in late February began to cancel the powerful part of the global scale. Many of the programs terminated in South Africa are based on HIV treatment and prevention services, and others are based on research. For example, USAID Cut a big research program The experimental HIV has developed vaccine.
At the beginning of March, NIH subrangs from Columbia University were then revoked, which affected several clinical researchers in the world, including in South Africa. Then, in March, NIH was sent to several grants directly in South Africa, and several grants were terminated by the owners of “DEI” (diversity, capital and included). It seems that during this wave, researchers were especially tougher in Wits.
Has been in samrc Coordination efforts to solve the crisis. Recently reported working day Samrc said that donor organizations provide 400 million randas to ensure the commitment of donor institutions in the government for this rand.
Meanwhile, the incisions only continue. The most recent approach is to update or refuse to communicate or communicate, communicate or communicate, to cancel and cancel the grants.
Has been published by Careful and Comprehension
