The finding raises hope for a so-called "functional cure" – a treatment that puts the disease in a sustained remission. But, for more than half of the 36.7 million HIV patients around the world, ART transformed it into a chronic disease. Much work has focused on the discovery of rare antibodies made by HIV patients that can neutralize several different forms of the virus. " Takeda does not study HIV. "In this instance, the GI tract is what is harboring this HIV cell population that needs to be cleared - at least that is what the monkey study implies."

Source: Egypt Independent December 01, 2016 15:33 UTC