HIV Cure: Is It Close to Reality? - WebMD
WEBApr 11, 2024 · Is a cure for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, on the horizon? Find out how new treatment therapies may work and what problems could happen.
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV - ABC News
WEBFeb 20, 2023 · Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV. Referred to as "the Dusseldorf patient" to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case ...
A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · A woman of mixed race appears to be the third person ever to be cured of H.I.V., using a new transplant method involving umbilical cord blood that opens up the possibility of curing more people...
HIV/AIDS - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic
WEBFeb 9, 2024 · Treatment. There's no cure for HIV/AIDS. Once you have the infection, your body can't get rid of it. But there are medicines that can control HIV and prevent complications. Everyone diagnosed with HIV should take antiretroviral therapy medicines, also called ART. This is true no matter what stage the disease is in or what the complications are.
Scientists say they can cut HIV out of cells - BBC News
WEBScientists say they have successfully eliminated HIV from infected cells, using Nobel Prize-winning Crispr gene-editing technology. Working like scissors, but at the molecular level, it cuts DNA ...
How are people cured of HIV? Here's everything you need to know
WEBMar 17, 2023 · Thankfully, drugs for HIV, called antiretroviral therapies (ART), can greatly extend HIV-positive people's lifespans and cut their risk of spreading the virus, but the medications must be taken...
A 7th person with HIV is probably cured after stem cell transplant …
WEBJul 18, 2024 · A stem cell transplant has the potential to cure HIV in part because it requires destroying a person’s cancer-afflicted immune system with chemotherapy and sometimes radiation and replacing...
A seventh case of HIV cure reported at AIDS 2024
WEBJul 25, 2024 · During the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024), being held in Munich, Germany, a new case of long HIV remission was reported and fuels optimism for an eventual HIV cure. In 2007, Timothy Brown, the so-called first Berlin patient, was the first person to be considered cured of HIV.
HIV: how close are we to a vaccine — or a cure? - Nature
WEBSep 2, 2024 · The standard treatment for HIV is antiretroviral therapy (ART), which involves a mix of drugs, usually taken daily, that prevents the virus from replicating inside the body.
Progress in HIV/AIDS cure: N.Y. woman is free of HIV for 4 years
WEBFeb 21, 2022 · NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with leading HIV/AIDS researcher Dr. Carlos del Rio about near and far-term impacts of a potential cure for the disease.