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14 Jun 2021

Setting it Straight: Vaccines, HIV, harm reduction and COVID-19

Writing about vaccines for the past four months (#43 to #60), my focus has been on the ‘hard sciences’ of molecular biology, virology, epidemiology, numbers, statistical analysis and so forth that allow us both to make these products and to evaluate them in various contexts. But when it comes to public health strategies (including vaccination), there are also very different, yet equally important, areas of professional expertise based in communications and the behavioural sciences.