The first immunotherapeutic cure for HIV has proven its safety during the first phase of clinical trials. This gives hope for full deliverance of mankind from the virus.
Scientists hope to completely cure HIV using immunotherapeutic medications with proven safety for humans. The first phase of clinical research is preliminary, but important milestone for the team of scientists from the University of North Carolina, received a grant of $20 million for the realization of their ideas into reality. Magicforum recalls over the past couple of years immunotherapy, which helps the human immune system to attack the disease, has become one of the most promising directions for research. Today with its help treat a variety of condition, from cancer to blindness.
However, in terms of HIV treatment development is not so rapid, indeed, in recent years this disease has tried to overcome with the help of bone marrow transplants, But they all failed, except for only one patient. And now for the first time in the history of the study researchers found that immunotherapy can be used to treat HIV-positive patients who have not yet faced with AIDS. Scientists are extremely encouraged, they hope to be able to repeat the success of the Berlin patient is the only HIV-positive patient on the planet, which completely rid of the virus with bone marrow transplant.
Note that the Berlin patient is in reality an American named Timothy brown, who was spared from HIV in Berlin in 2007. Brown was already HIV-positive when she became ill with leukemia – a disease of the bone marrow. In order to treat leukemia and he spent the transplant. He not only survived the surgery and beat cancer of the blood, but also completely got rid of HIV. Over the next 11 years his body has never been found any traces of the virus. However, attempts to repeat this treatment with other patients was not possible. (READ MORE)