The US Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses (NIAID) gave $ 205,000 to researchers for HIV examine
US corona czar Dr. Anthony Fauci’s company awarded over $ 200,000 on the top of the Covid-19 pandemic to an experiment injecting male monkeys with feminine hormones, in a bid to seek out out why trans girls have larger charges of HIV.
Fauci’s division, the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, awarded $ 205,562 in funding to Scripps Analysis final month to inject male monkeys with feminine hormones. Scientists plan to observe how the hormones impression the males’ immune programs, testing the speculation that feminizing hormones negatively have an effect on trans girls’s immune programs and thus enhance their probability of changing into HIV constructive.
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The mission obtained NIAID funding final yr however started a yr earlier, in December 2020. Fauci has been linked to analysis injecting monkeys with HIV courting again to the mid-1980s. His company has contracted to accumulate some 500 of the animals yearly from an island in South Carolina the place they’re bred particularly for US authorities analysis at an annual price of hundreds of thousands, in accordance with authorities paperwork revealed by marketing campaign group White Coat Waste.
No parallel analysis injecting feminine monkeys with male hormones is being performed – and accordingly, trans males are solely lacking from the Facilities for Illness Management’s HIV factsheet, an odd oversight however one which has been justified by stating the low fee of an infection amongst that inhabitants. Trans males contract HIV at nearly the identical fee as organic girls – three% vs four%, respectively – whereas 19% of trans girls are HIV-positive.
Neuroscientist with animal rights advocacy group PETA Katherine Roe was not impressed by the experiment, arguing that monkeys can’t even contract HIV and the testing thus has no worth past “pointless, wasteful monkey torture.” As an alternative, she mentioned, monkeys contract the milder and extra survivable SIV – simian immunodeficiency virus.
The experiment has introduced Fauci as soon as once more underneath hearth from animal rights teams, who’ve already closely criticized him for horrific beagle experiments his company was discovered to have funded, together with infecting canines with heartworm solely to euthanize them afterwards.
