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Lenacapavir, usually used to treat multidrug-resistant HIV, was 100 percent effective at preventing HIV infections in women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa who received it twice per year.
On a special episode (first released on September 25, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: This year, for just the seventh time since the start of the HIV pandemic, a person was cured of the virus. That ...
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1, colored green, budding from a cultured lymphocyte Diagram of HIV. HIV/AIDS research includes all medical research that attempts to prevent, treat, or cure HIV/AIDS, as well as fundamental research about the nature of HIV as an infectious agent and AIDS as the disease caused by HIV.
A German man has probably been cured of HIV, a medical milestone achieved by only six other people in the more than 40 years since the AIDS epidemic began. ... patients will ever be available to ...
HIV superinfection involves an individual with HIV being infected by a new, phylogenetically distinct HIV strain. [3] Early reports of HIV superinfection were observed in cases of co-infection with HIV-1 and HIV-2. [3] Studies have shown that a lack of neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 infection predisposes patients to superinfection. [3]
The spread of HIV/AIDS has affected millions of people worldwide; AIDS is considered a pandemic. [1] The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2016 there were 36.7 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, with 1.8 million new HIV infections per year and 1 million deaths due to AIDS. [2]
Two new cases are presented Wednesday at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal. A 5th man is deemed likely cured through a stem cell transplant.
Paul Edmonds, 68, is one of only five people in the world to achieve full remission of HIV -- and he had the virus the longest -- for over 31 years -- among the five patients.