Ryusei the Morning Star Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hiv-aids-vaccine-therapy-trials-no-daily-drugs-art-irsicaixa-barcelona-beatriz-mothe-a7596521.html Researchers combined two new HIV vaccines with a drug usually used to treat cancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halubaris Maphotika Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 HOLY sheet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ P O L A R I S ~ Posted February 26, 2017 Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 *sigh*Trying to poison us baka again, I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snatch Steal Posted March 4, 2017 Report Share Posted March 4, 2017 I sure hope people don't see this and go out having unprotected sex It's a slim margin, but I'm sure there's someone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Posted March 4, 2017 Report Share Posted March 4, 2017 Not the biggest fan of these kinds of articles. Optimism should be taken with a grain of salt here. Be positive but expect nothing, citations from the source article indicate it might be just a fluke and we see how fast these stories turn out to be nothing more than getting ahead of ourselves. Also as evidenced by the linked PDF of the experiment these notes are pretty freaking old: https://www.iasociety.org/Web/WebContent/File/HIV_Cure_Symposium_2015/Posters/PE46.pdf If someone could bother to find a follow up on the experiment/study instead of this, it would lend to greater optimism. Quote In 10 of the participants, the virus rapidly bounced back, forcing them to return to ART. But five of the participants no longer needed to take the drugs because their immune systems could suppress the virus unaided. Quote One person has been off ART for seven months now. The other four have been free of detectable virus for six, 14, 19 and 21 weeks, respectively. Mothe, who revealed the results at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle last week, says they will follow each participant to see how long they can control the virus themselves. Quote It isn’t clear why two-thirds of the group didn’t respond to the therapy – Mothe and her colleagues are investigating this now. Quote While the results are significant, excitement should be tempered. Previous treatments have appeared to “cure” people with HIV only for the virus to later return. For instance, after being born to a mother with HIV, a baby in Mississippi was treated with ART for 18 months. This seemed to cure her of the virus but it returned when she was 4. HIV has also re-emerged months after ART was stopped in two men who appeared to have got rid of the virus after bone marrow transplants two years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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