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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]
Furthermore, the PARTNER study, [43] which ran from 2010 to 2014, enrolled 1166 serodiscordant couples (where one partner is HIV positive and the other is negative) in a study that found that the estimated rate of transmission through any condomless sex with the HIV-positive partner taking ART with an HIV load less than 200 copies/ml was zero. [43]
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 ...
The twice-yearly injection of the drug lenacapavir can provide total protection against HIV infections, demonstrating 100% efficacy in Phase 3 trial data released by drugmaker Gilead and published ...
A man with HIV who underwent a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer has been in remission for nearly two years, joining five others who are cured or possibly cured.
In developed countries the risk of acquiring HIV from a blood transfusion is extremely low (less than one in half a million) where improved donor selection and HIV screening is performed; [18] for example, in the UK the risk was reported at one in five million in 2011 [75] and in the United States it was one in 1.5 million in 2008. [76]
Another person, a mixed-race woman, has been cured of HIV. Doctors say a transplant using stem cells from umbilical cord blood was successful. It means it could now be possible to cure more people ...