A 44-year-old man who was the first of 25 patients to receive the therapy said preliminary tests suggested that the virus had stopped circulating in his blood Chris Jackson/ReutersA British social worker has become the first patient in the world to try a new combination therapy that could cure HIV. More than 36 million people, including about 100,000 in Britain, are living with the virus, which worms its way into the body’s defences against disease and can leave them crippled. Although treatments against the condition have improved significantly over the past few decades, there is no therapy that can completely root the infection out of its hiding places. More than 600 people with HIV die in the UK every year. Many patients are prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART), a…

Source: The Times October 02, 2016 23:00 UTC