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HIV-AIDS. candidate treatment for sustained remission

A future where we can be cured of AIDS. the idea seems utopian. However, forty years after the discovery of HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS, new perspectives have emerged in the fight against this infection, thanks to the discovery of a treatment that, unlike the existing ones, will not need to be taken. for life. Teams from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and AP-HP, supported by the National Agency for AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Research (ANRS), highlighted the involvement of specific antibodies in the fight against viruses. Ahead of a clinical trial due to start in France at the end of 2023, the discovery fuels hope for a long-term remission of the infection without treatment. The results appear in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.

Among HIV-1 patients, there are rare people who are treated early in the infection and can control the virus after stopping antiretroviral treatment…

Source: Le Figaro

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