An appeal to Xi Jinping to develop an HIV vaccine.

The efforts in the United States for an mRNA vaccine or any vaccine has come to a dead stop. We must not stop trying to get an HIV vaccine, we must at least make an attempt. New approaches are needed.

Oct 29, 2025

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For the letter going directly to China I am going to have the post office figure out what the postal charge is and have it added by them.

Plan

I plan on sharing this letter widely and also with Chinese entities on social media platforms. Hopefully it will reach the attention of the Chinese government. Also, I am not entirely sure of the address of Xi Jinping so I am sending a copy to the Chinese embassy in DC.

My street address is redacted as well as part of my zip code for security reasons.

I kept the letter short. I am sure the Chinese government is aware of what is happening here to American medical science. I also argued the appeal in terms of the benefit for the Chinese government and its people. I think it is an opportunity for significant geopolitical soft power.

I am going to keep thinking of what we might do to get an HIV vaccine. I think that we are going to have to come up with new approaches.

The letter.

October 29, 2025
Edward H. Sebesta
Redacted.
Dallas, Texas 75XXX
United States of America
redacted@gmail.com
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General Secretary CCP Xi Jinping
Zhongnanhai,
Xi Chang’an Jie,
Beijing 100017.
People’s Republic of China
Dear Hon. Xi:
I am writing to you to plead that The People’s Republic of China develop a vaccine for HIV and include in that effort developing an mRNA vaccine.
If China developed an HIV vaccine, the peoples of nearly every nation would be overjoyed and thankful. The prestige of the medical science of China would be further enhanced. It would constitute an ornament in the history of China. Millions of Chinese citizens would be spared a terrible disease in the future.
In 2026 it will 45 years since the start of the HIV epidemic in the United Staes and there is neither a cure nor vaccine. This is unacceptable.
At this time there is no credible effort to develop an HIV vaccine of which I know in the United States. In particular there is no development work being done an mRNA vaccine despite the very favorable early results of the Moderna HIV mRNA vaccine efforts.
The current United States federal administration’s approach to vaccination is anti-scientific. The government is shut down and thousands of health professionals are being laid off. Approval of new medicines of any type is now grinding to a halt.
However, the failure to have a vaccine after 45 years involves the poor efforts of prior administrations. While covid mRNA vaccines were released in Jan. 2020, the US government was still trying to make a conventional type vaccine work with its failure announced in December 2023 continuing a long line of failures.
Unless some government with resources and abilities undertakes to develop an HIV vaccine, the situation is hopeless. I hope you consider China aggressively working to produce an HIV vaccine.
Sincerely Yours,
Edward H. Sebesta