One of the first attempts to use gene therapy to treat HIV has produced promising results in clinical trials. When the therapy was tested on 74 patients, it was shown to be safe and appeared to reduce the effect of the virus on the immune system.
In theory, one treatment should be enough to replace the need for a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy. The study, by the University of California, Los Angeles, appears in the journal Nature Medicine. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has greatly improved the prognosis for people infected with HIV.
However, it must be taken on a daily basis, there is a risk of adverse reactions and the virus - which has an astonishing capacity to evolve rapidly - is starting to develop resistance to the drugs.
The researchers have shown enough of an effect for us to be hopeful that a gene therapy approach to HIV treatment might eventually deliver effective treatments for the disease.
2 comments:
HIV now curable...But upto 60% Thialand scientist have achieve this imposible....they basically try to strength the human immune system.....instead of killing the hiv virus
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