HIV cured 44-year-old Briton.
HIV cured 44-year-old Briton. He became the first 50 people who successfully complete specific antiviral therapy. The new technique, according to scientists, allows to trace and destroy the HIV in the entire body, not just in those places where the virus is most active. Studies have shown that the amount of virus in his blood after therapy is so small that led to negative results.
Standard antiretroviral therapy suppresses the active infected cells, but does not affect the rest of the infected T-lymphocytes. This means that the currently existing drugs are able to monitor the activity of HIV, but not get rid of it. Scientists say that the proposed therapy is being tested, and is not intended for widespread clinical implementation.
By 2014, according to the who, approximately 37 million people worldwide were infected with HIV, and 34 million have died from causes related to the disease. By this time the virus killed annually about 1.5 million people and about 2.2 million have become carriers of the virus. Antiviral therapy get less than half of cases.
