An HIV vaccine is within reach

In January 2025, Linda-Gail Bekker stood inside a vaccine manufacturing plant and allowed herself to believe that the first HIV vaccine candidate conceived through African science and led by Africans might finally become a reality. Key takeaways HIV has stubbornly resisted prevention via a vaccine. But in mRNA, scientists think they have finally found a technology to develop one.  mRNA, which was used for the successful Covid vaccines, is a way to agilely iterate and develop new candidate…