Could This Be The Cure For HIV?

Five HIV patients remain virus-free seven
months after taking a new vaccine – which has
been described as a ‘functional cure’ for the
dreaded virus.
The treatment has allowed the patients to stop
taking regular doses of antiretroviral drugs, the
Spanish researchers say.
According to Yahoo News, the results need to be
confirmed in larger studies.
The ‘therapeutic vaccine’ does not actually get
rid of the virus, but bolsters the immune system
enough that HIV remained at undetectable levels
in five out of 13 patients.
‘It’s the proof of concept that through
therapeutic vaccination we can really re-educate
our T cells to control the virus,’ says Dr Beatriz
Mothe of the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute in
Barcelona, Spain, in an interview with New
Scientist.
‘This is the first time that we see this is possible
in humans.’
There have been more than 50 trials of
therapeutic vaccines for HIV, but this is the first
which has boosted the immune system in a
‘meaningful’ way according to Dr Steven Deeks
an HIV/AIDS researcher at the University of
California, San Francisco.
- Just knoow that a Nigerian man has found the
cure but our politicians are yet to give him
support.