HIV and AIDS
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There exists a group of HIV-positive people who have a rare ability to naturally control the HIV infection. Now, after years of research, a team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, has successfully reprogrammed cells that lack this ability, giving them the same, antiviral potency.
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Scientists report the “functional cure” of an HIV patient for only the second time ever. Known only as “the London patient”, the man received a transplant of bone marrow stem cells from a donor that had a resistance to the virus. The patient has now been in remission for 18 months.
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HIV is a life sentence, but it can be managed through antiretroviral therapy. New clinical trials in humans have shown that drugs based on two antibodies naturally found in some people can put HIV into hiding for months at a time.
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Developing a HIV vaccine has been frustrating scientists for decades due the ability of the virus to rapidly mutate. A team of researchers is now the closest they've ever been to producing a successful vaccine, with an experimental drug moving to a large-scale human trial in Southern Africa.
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HIV is no longer the death knell it once was thanks to modern medicine. Now, scientists in the UK have developed a new type of HIV test with the potential to improve millions more lives.
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The HIV virus has completely vanished from the bloodstream of a 44-year-old man participating in a medical trial. Although more time is needed to confirm whether the result is from the new approach or from anti-HIV drugs that the patient was taking, the implications of the research are encouraging.
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A team from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University has successfully tested a gene editing system, demonstrating its ability to eliminate the HIV-1 virus from DNA in human cells grown in culture.
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A new treatment, which provides patients with a drug-releasing vaginal ring for long-term protective solution against the transmission of HIV, has proved partially effective in a new study.
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A vaccine for the AIDS virus may become possible through a new compound proving highly effective in preventing HIV infection. The scientists say with its ability to block multiple strains of infection, the technique has huge potential to provide long-lasting protection against the deadly virus.
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According to UNAIDS, a member of the United Nations Development Group, 58 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women. Help could be on its way, in the form of an anti-HIV intravaginal ring that is worn continuously for up to 30 days.
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A new vaccine candidate developed at the Oregon Health and Science University has been shown to wipe out the HIV equivalent in monkeys. The breakthrough could lead to a human vaccine preventing the onset of HIV/AIDS and even cure patients currently on anti-retroviral drugs.
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A mutated form of a protein found in the HIV virus may be able to keep HIV from progressing into AIDS.
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