Tens of thousands of HIV-infected patients in Russia may be spared from having to swallow a daily pill. Revolutionary in its results of the study demonstrated a new method of injection, which suppresses the virus for months.
A new combination of drugs can suppress the virus HIV more than 6 months, it additionally take these medications for six months will be required. We are talking about injections that can be an alternative to daily reception of medicines from the category of highly active antiretroviral therapy. They need to be taken for life in order to keep control of HIV and not give it a go in the AIDS stage. Magicforum reminds us that scientists have very long been trying to develop an alternative to daily pills, but every time these attempts failed due to the fact that certain strains of HIV resistant to antibodies.
But now scientists from Rockefeller University and National institutes of health have successfully suppressed this resistance, by combining the two antibodies at the same time. In two patients this combination has helped to keep HIV at an undetectable level for 30 weeks, and most of the other for 15 weeks. The researchers emphasize that this is a very big step forward. If a single antibody can not cope with this problem, their combination is much more effective, and now proven that this kind of injections or IVS can be successfully applied.
20 years ago HIV diagnosis sounded like a death sentence, but today it is also a chronic disease like diabetes. Victims of HIV have to take pills under antiretroviral therapy that allow you to live to old age, without encountering serious problems. However, for many patients the need to take each day a lot of pills is a very painful. Someone forgets to follow this schedule, and someone refuses it because of the side effects. All of this threatens the transition of HIV to AIDS and death. (READ MORE)