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Robert Charles Gallo (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː l oʊ /; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher.He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.
In 1983, a group of scientists and doctors at the Pasteur Institute in France, led by Luc Montagnier, discovered a new virus in a patient with signs and symptoms that often preceded AIDS. [18] They named the virus lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV, and sent samples to Robert Gallo's team in the United States.
[96] [89] It included Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV, Nobel Prize winners, theologians, hospital administrators, and psychologists. [98] [99] At the opening session of the conference, Cardinal John O'Connor urged the public to be treated with respect and not as public health hazards, as outcasts, or shunned and left to die.
And antiviral treatment has changed HIV from a death sentence in the early '80s to people with HIV now having a normal life expectancy. People with HIV on antiviral drugs can safely have babies.
A new long-acting preventive HIV drug could reach the world’s poorest countries by the end of 2025 or early 2026, a global health official told Reuters on Tuesday. The ambition is to start ...
Standard antiretroviral treatment for HIV works only on immune cells that, typical of infected cells, are actively making new viral copies. Consequently, HIV within resting cells stays under the ...
HIV was first identified as the cause of AIDS and isolated in parallel by researchers Luc Montagnier in France and Robert Gallo in the United States in 1983 and 1984. [3] Without treatment, HIV is inevitably fatal, with a median survival time of 8–10 years. [ 4 ]
HIV is a resilient infection that can rebound from established reservoirs when treatment is halted. Those infected can live normal lives with adequate treatment, but the virus can pose lifelong ...