Scientists has confirmed a remarkable
progress on a HIV patient, According to the Doctor Results
showed the man’s most recent blood test showed no detectable HIV was present.
The
man, who has remained anonymous, is the first of 50 people to complete a trial
using the two-stage attack on the deadly virus.
, The
managing director of the National Institute for Health Research Office for
Clinical Research Infrastructure, Mark Samuels told the Sunday Times: “This is
one of the first serious attempts at a full cure for HIV. We are exploring the
real possibility of curing HIV.
Current
methods using antiretroviral therapies (Art) fall short of ridding patients of
HIV, as the virus can hide out of the drugs’ reach in the immune system’s
T-cells.
By
sheltering in dormant T-cells the virus can later take over its host and use it
to produce thousands of copies of itself, should Art no longer work.
The
new therapy aims to overcome a major barrier to clearing the virus from a
sufferer’s body that has challenged researchers for decades.
The
research by Oxford and Cambridge universities, Imperial College London,
University College London, and King’s College London, is testing a “kick and
kill” technique to first expose, then destroy the virus.
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