Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers. Science correspondent Nate Rott here filling in for Emily and Regina. Today, we're going to talk about a global disease that's long hammered sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard, HIV.
Specifically, we're going to talk about a vaccine to fight HIV.
So Ari Daniel, for those who don't recognize your dulcet tones, is a freelance science reporter. And Ari, I hear there's a pretty remarkable backstory to this vaccine we're going to talk about.
That is correct.
Okay, so where do you want to start? All right.
Right here, Nate. Inside a lab at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Chapter 2: What innovative vaccine is being developed to combat HIV?
It's arrayed with, if you can picture it, half a dozen large green and white freezers.
These are the freezers that contain the samples that are the basis of everything we do in the lab.
This is Penny Moore. She's a virologist at the University of Wittwatersrand.
Our freezers are named after the seven dwarves.
I've always felt a strong affinity for sleepy.
So you have happy and grumpy, and every freezer in the lab is named after somebody.
So Penny cracks open the lid of Bashful... and pulls out a tower of frosty tubes.
It's heavy and hard for me to lift. So this is blood and cells.
These, Nate, are all the samples that have been donated to Penny and her team over and over again for two decades by the same group of 117 South African women.
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Chapter 3: How did the recent political changes impact HIV research funding?
Wow. I'm excited to hear how this goes. Thank you so much, Ari, for bringing us this story.
Of course, Nate. Thanks for having me.
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