Dr. John Nkengasong

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Science Friday · Amid shifting politics, can we build stable global health systems? · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's all those kinds of questions there.

I mean, why are they vaccinating me?

I mean, all the vaccines that you took.

So...

You grew up in that curiosity of, I mean, because of your circumstances, you are curious to solving the problem because you have to solve your own problems when you are poor.

Yeah, AIDS is its own story, but it has a general story.

The general story of HIV-AIDS is that

We have to show resilience in fighting a disease.

Diseases are very difficult to fight, very difficult to fight.

So it's not transactional.

It shouldn't be politicized.

I mean, because it takes time.

It took us...

years to get to where we are with polio.

It took us years and decades to eradicate smallpox, right?

So it took us at least 25 years to bend the curve in HIV AIDS.

From where we are having millions of deaths to now that we have about close to 650,000 deaths a year, right?

But it took us 25 years.

The United States government invested more than 100 billion over the last 25 years in fighting HIV AIDS in the world.

They saved 25 million lives.

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