US NIH lifts ban on new research funding for South Africa
The journal Science is reporting that the US NIH has ended the sweeping funding ban imposed last year by President Donald Trump, reopening the possibility of American government support for research projects in South Africa.
In what could be viewed as a significant thaw in United States-South African relations, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has lifted a ban on funding new scientific research in South Africa.
The funding freeze followed Trump’s decision to halt US foreign assistance to South Africa, amid an increasingly strained relationship between Washington and Pretoria over both foreign and domestic policy disagreements.
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