“Tony Fauci knew that Nevirapine had fundamental safety and efficacy deficits that went way beyond recordkeeping,” says Farber. Those problems were existential: the drug didn’t work, and it killed both mothers and children. According to Farber, “Two inspections had now declared HIVNET 012 to be a complete mess: Boehringer’s own and Westat’s, which had been performed in conjunction with NIAID.
