NEW YORK, NY — In a novel approach to conquering HIV, amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, is pairing HIV researchers with bioengineers to address the main barrier to a cure for HIV: the persistent reservoirs of virus not cleared by antiretroviral therapy. A new round of Investment grants, totaling $1.2 million, will support six…
The human immune system can handle large bursts of HIV activity and so it should be possible to cure HIV with a ‘kick and kill’ strategy, finds new research led by University College London, (UCL), the University of Oxford and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to a UCL news report. The…
Back in the middle of September, the media published what appeared to be one of the biggest developments in the race for a cure for HIV/AIDS in a very long time: 16 monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus (similar to HIV) were tested with a new vaccine and nine were protected. More shocking, those nine animals…
In what doctors are hoping will be the second time in recorded medical history that a patient is cured of both leukemia and HIV, specialists at the University of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital are using a highly experimental transplant to rid the young patient of his diseases. A similar procedure, which was tried once before…
(CNN) — The case of the first toddler ever to be “functionally cured” of HIV could have wide-ranging effects on the global fight to end the AIDS epidemic. “If we can replicate this in other infants … this has huge implications for the burden of infection that’s occurring globally,” said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatrician…
(CNN) — A 2-year-old Mississippi girl is the first child to be “functionally cured” of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. Researchers said they believe early intervention — in this case within 30 hours of birth — with three anti-viral drugs was key to the outcome. A “functional cure” is when the presence of the virus is…
