HIV vaccine research: WHO recommends guidelines for early treatment to HIV Patients

The World Health Organisation or WHO recommended patients with HIV to start treatment at early stage of the disease and encouraged to take safer and simpler medicines as the vaccine for the virus gains steady progress in research and development. HIV treatment encouraged WHO recommended a new HIV treatment guidelines offering antiretroviral therapy or ART to HIV patients on early stages. Recent evidence proved that patients taking ART earlier will live longer, lives healthier and substantially reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to others. This move could avert an additional 3 million deaths and prevents 3.5 million more to new HIV infections between 2013 and 2025. WHO’s new recommendations are presented in “Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drug for treating and preventing HIV infection” and the new data revealed a total of 9.7 million people were taking these lifesaving drugs at the end of 2012. “These guidelines represent another leap ahead...