HIV cure: Spanish researchers to begin vaccine trial in 2014; UK scientists test cure with results in 2017

Spanish researchers and UK scientists are currently preparing for the clinical trials of a possible vaccine and cure against AIDS-causing HIV. Spanish experts believe the vaccine will be therapeutic while UK scientists are incorporating a drug to reactivate dormant viral residues. Anticipated breakthrough Researchers at Spanish Hospital have announced the upcoming clinical trials set for 2014 as therapeutic vaccines for HIV patients stressing the new drug is designed to treat the disease instead of preventing it. Clinical trials will be conducted as part of the four-year undergoing research project carried by other centers in Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands. “The goal is to achieve a functional cure of  HIV. This would mean that we are able to control HIV in infected people without having to provide them with antiretroviral treatment their whole lives,” Josep Maria Gatell, director of the Hospital Clinic Infectious Disease unit in Barcelona, said as quoted in Mail and Guardian. The therapeutic vaccine...