U.S. National Institutes of Health pulls funding for UBC research on HIV and women

The U.S. National Institutes of Health has pulled funding from a University of British Columbia research project on women and HIV care, with the government agency blaming the project’s “amorphous equity objectives” and commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion.The termination of funding is part of a broader overhauling of the NIH and other U.S. government agencies under the Trump administration that has alarmed the scientific community. Last Monday, the NIH updated its grants policy statement to state that recipients cannot have diversity, equity and inclusion programs or engage in “discriminatory boycotts” of Israeli companies.