All HIV articles – Page 11
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NewsStudy outlines world’s third successful cure of HIV infection after stem cell transplantation
The ‘Düsseldorf patient’, a 53-year-old man, is now the third person in the world to be completely cured of HIV with a stem cell transplant.
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NewsClinicians ID severe form of mpox with high mortality in people with advanced HIV
An international collaboration of clinicians has identified a severe, necrotising form of mpox with a high mortality in immunosuppressed people living with HIV.
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NewsHIV vaccine candidate aims to block virus before it takes root
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $3.8 million to Texas Biomedical Research Institute to further develop a promising HIV vaccine candidate that stops the virus upon entry, before it begins rapidly spreading throughout the body.
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NewsScientists find two separate reservoirs of latent HIV in patients
Scientists have shown that, addition to HIV’s ability to lay dormant in the blood/lymphoid system, the virus may also lay dormant in the central nervous system, delineating another challenge in creating a cure.
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NewsCannabis shows potential as weapon in the fight against COVID-19
Cannabis could become an important weapon in the battle against Covid-19, with a new review suggesting both cannabinoids and terpenes show great promise in lab research, due to their antiviral qualities.
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NewsHIV infection leaves memory that persists in cells even when virus is gone
A new study explains why people living with HIV may suffer from chronic inflammation, which can put them at an increased risk of developing comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease and neurocognitive dysfunction and how suppression or even eradication of HIV in the body may not resolve it. ...
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NewsMethod for singling out HIV virus’s most dangerous parts could lead to new drugs
A new technique could make it possible to identify the most dangerous parts of the HIV virus, so they can be singled out for attack.