New vaccine may eliminate HIV completely

Finnish company FIT Biotech might have just developed an extremely effective treatment for HIV, a vaccine designed to “lower the viral load of current HIV patients.” According to Finnish news outlet Yle Uutiset, FIT Biotech’s treatment might have the ability to stop the HIV infection from progressing dead in its tracks, or even help patients rid their bodies of the infection completely. CEO Kalevi Reijonen says that the company is collaborating with two European universities and American pharmaceutical companies to conduct an ongoing study to test the vaccine. The research will last two to three years starting in spring 2014, and involve 1,000 patients throughout Switzerland and France. The first phase will involve hundreds of HIV sufferers. According to Reijonen, the treatment is revolutionary. If testing is successful, “… applications will be made to the FDA in the USA and the EMA in Europe to authorise the marketing of the drug. Dealing...