The press release, issued earlier this year, announced a partnership that surely raised a few eyebrows. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative would be working with a coalition on epidemic preparedness to develop a Lassa fever vaccine.
Then, earlier this month, IAVI, as the HIV vaccine group is known, announced it would absorb the operations of an organization founded to spur development of better tuberculosis vaccines.
What was a nonprofit group created to spearhead work on HIV vaccines doing dabbling in Lassa fever and tuberculosis?
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