AIDS physicians hope for a breakthrough in therapy

Doctors hope for a breakthrough in AIDS therapy

03/17/2014

Physicians hope to be able to completely defeat the AIDS virus HIV soon. A Munich doctor said that the cure of AIDS „a perspective“ be.

Cure of AIDS „a perspective“
Doctors hope that they will soon be able to completely defeat the AIDS virus HIV. As the Munich internist and AIDS specialist Hans Jäger told the news magazine Focus, is the cure of AIDS „a perspective“. Background of the optimism is a report from the USA at the beginning of March about an HIV-positive born baby of an infected woman. The pathogen was no longer detectable after a therapy with drugs in the blood of the child. According to Jäger, there are about 20 cases worldwide, in which infected people have apparently lost the virus again. Most of them would respond unusually well to AIDS medications.

Hope-giving experiments will be presented soon
Dr. Hans Jäger is part of the congress management of the 15th conference „AIDS and hepatitis days“, which takes place from 21 to 23 March in Munich. According to Focus information, virologist Marcus Altfeld will present hope-giving monkey experiments at the conference. The animals are given an antibody that should incite their immune system to eliminate the virus. Altfeld told Focus that the principle is one „therapeutic vaccine“ would.

The most exciting of HIV prevention studies
Only a few days ago made headlines, how „AIDS virus: Syringe to protect against HIV“ the round. Scientists at Rockefeller University in New York tested GSK744, which is similar to the recently approved HIV drug dolutegravir, on macaques and found amazing results. Although the animals also got pathogens, the researchers did not detect any infection in the following weeks. Robert Grant of the University of California, San Francisco, a virologist who was not involved in the investigation, said: „This is the most exciting thing I know about HIV prevention studies right now.“ (Sb)

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