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Новая страница: «In the past couple of years, finding a cure for HIV has emerged as a top priority. The reason is because antiretroviral therapy (ART) has pretty much reached its max...»

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In the past couple of years, finding a cure for HIV has emerged as a top priority. The reason is because antiretroviral therapy (ART) has pretty much reached its maximum level of effectiveness. With regards to improving the power antiretroviral medications, not much else can be done. So, the attention turns to a cure-any type of cure. Actually, there are two types of cures that researchers are exploring, and only or both could be beneficial. The very first is a sterilizing cure, which will eliminate HIV from the body completely; the second would reduce the HIV contained in the body to an asymptomatic level so ART will not be needed anymore-a functional cure.

Several different strategies happen to be explored in the quest to find an HIV cure. Gene therapy, immune strengthening, permanent suppression of latent virus, and certain types of drugs that work to flush HIV out of the reservoirs in your body where they hide - they've all been studied. HIV reservoirs are seen as the final hiding place for HIV in your body, and the work will not rest until a highly effective strategy is developed to deal with them. They've been able to persist in HIV-positive patients-even those on ART-because they hide in places where ART can't catch them.

Current antiretroviral medications work well at stopping HIV out in the open, and reduce their ability to transmit in one T-cell to another through the bloodstream; however, direct cell-to-cell transmission proves to be tricky, and ART isn't as effective at stopping that. A different treatment strategy is needed. Residual HIV are available up to Ten years after suppressive therapy has commenced, effectively making ART an ongoing practice and expense, since ART is not cheap. Adherence to this type of treatment regimen can be difficult and expensive for many people all over the world, especially in developing countries who lack quality access to these medications.

[http://vbc6.com/index.php?p=blogs/viewstory/73294 HIV reservoirs workshop]

The two main goals within the treatment of HIV is getting a cure and developing a vaccine. Latent HIV hides in reservoirs and comes alive almost immediately after ART is stopped-no matter when it is actually stopped. These reservoirs are established very soon after first infection, which has prompted research into starting ART on HIV-positive people as soon as they're infected, prior to the reservoirs have a chance to form. When the mystery of HIV reservoirs is solved, the ultimate chapter of finding an HIV cure could be written, and hopefully as a corollary it will result in finding a vaccine to prevent further infections in the future.

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