More Than Meets The Irb: A Joint Initiative Of Washington University In St. Louis And Prim&r

In today’s episode of More than Meets the IRB, we hear from awardee of the Presidential Medal of Honor Dr. Anthony Fauci on some of the ethical challenges he faced in addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It’s an engaging and wide-ranging narrative: from Fauci’s publicly denouncing the FDA’s process of delivering certain drugs to individuals to his receiving presidential acknowledgement for a creative idea of how to bring drug access to these patients. Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious disease for over 30 years . He has played a critical role in research of HIV/AIDS and other immunodeficiencies. Early Drug Development When the government didn’t make available certain drugs quickly to the community of HIV/AIDS patients, they would acquire them through illicit groups known as Buyers Clubs (as featured in the 2013 film The Dallas Buyers Club). We learn about the iconic randomized control trial of AZT as well as the treatment of patients with AIDS and