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HIV/AIDS Treatment & Cure Update 2015: Researchers discover HIV vaccine after first-ever human trial using antibody-based therapy

By the end of 2013, there were 35 million people living human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) globally, and that number likely increased in subsequent years. However, the clone of a potent single-cell-based antibody, that...

16 April, 2015

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HIV vaccine on the horizon? Rockefeller University researchers call antibody ‘extremely potent’ against virus strains

Results from a new trial found that an “extremely potent” antibody can dramatically reduce the level of the HIV virus in a patient’s blood — raising hopes for an HIV vaccine. Researchers at Rockefeller...

12 April, 2015

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Aggressive new HIV virus strain in Cuba progresses to AIDS in less than 3 years

It’s been a little over 30 years since HIV/AIDS first emerged as one of the deadliest diseases known to man, and in that time we’ve made great strides toward eliminating it out for good. Awareness remains high, fewer...

23 February, 2015

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Researchers gain new insight on immune cells that harbor latent HIV virus

Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in these pills doesn’t touch the virus’ hidden reserves, which lie...

6 February, 2015

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Human mode of responding to HIV vaccine is conserved from monkeys

The antibody response from an HIV vaccine trial in Thailand was made possible by a genetic trait carried over in humans from an ancient ancestry with monkeys and apes, according to a study led by Duke Medicine...

21 January, 2015

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New study explains why HIV vaccine backfires

Several studies have discovered that HIV vaccines can backfire and lead to increased rates of the infection, as opposed to reducing or eliminating the viral pathogen. Now, a new study published in the Proceedings of the...

16 January, 2015

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The perfidious virus – why HIV is so hard to beat

Doctors in Spain successfully treated an AIDS patient – but don’t want to speak of a cure. The problem: HIV can “hide” in human DNA for a long time and resurface long after a patient is...

12 December, 2014

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HIV: Why is the virus so ‘successful’?

HIV has repeatedly made the jump from animals to humans. But only once did it spread around the world. Jonathan Ball, professor of virology at the University of Nottingham, asks why. In Cameroon, about 100 years ago, an...

9 December, 2014

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Russian scientists to test three HIV vaccines

Three different vaccines against HIV – all developed in Russia – are ready for trial, an HIV specialist for the Russian Health Ministry announced at a press conference held on World AIDS Day. The HIV (human...

2 December, 2014

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It may be possible to prevent HIV even without a vaccine

We’re removing the doorway that HIV uses to get into cells” Natural immunity is the most reliable way to protect yourself from viruses, bacteria and parasites. And the best way to acquire such immunity, in...

7 November, 2014

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