SamuelCollings109: Новая страница: «In the past few years, finding a remedy for HIV has emerged as a top priority. This is because because antiretroviral therapy (ART) has pretty much reached its maxim...»

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Новая страница: «In the past few years, finding a remedy for HIV has emerged as a top priority. This is because because antiretroviral therapy (ART) has pretty much reached its maxim...»

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

Several different strategies have been explored in the quest to locate an HIV cure. Gene therapy, immune strengthening, permanent suppression of latent virus, and certain kinds of drugs that actually work to flush HIV from the reservoirs in the body where they hide - they've all been studied. HIV reservoirs are considered the final hiding spot for HIV in the body, and the work won't rest until a highly effective strategy is designed to deal with them. They have been able to persist in HIV-positive patients-even those found on ART-because they hide in places where ART can't catch them.

Current antiretroviral medications are very effective at stopping HIV out in the open, and reduce remarkable ability to transmit from 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 technique 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 such a treatment regimen can prove difficult and costly for many people all over the world, especially in developing countries who lack quality access to these medications.

[http://menkonline.com/blog/14987/hiv-reservoirs-workshop/ 2013 HIV workshop]

There's two main goals within the treatment of HIV is getting a cure and creating 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, that has prompted research into starting ART on HIV-positive people when they're infected, prior to the reservoirs have a chance to form. When the mystery of HIV reservoirs is solved, the final chapter of finding an HIV cure can be written, and hopefully as a corollary it will result in finding a vaccine to avoid further infections later on.

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