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...identifying a novel potential target for treatment, Harvard scientists may have brought us one step closer to finding a vaccine for HIV...
...recent paper from Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute proposes a mechanism by which “broadly neutralizing antibodies” (BNAs) can block an HIV infection. The paper is published in the January issue of Immunity magazine...
Many scientists have attempted to find HIV vaccines in the past and most of their efforts have focused on protecting T-cells, the antibody-producing cells that HIV kills. However, according to Medical School Professor Ellis L. Reinherz ’71, scientists have yet to discover a way to keep HIV from developing in patients. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Fauci also notes that HIV tends to become compartmentalized in the body, which means that tests measuring HIV levels in the blood may not accurately reflect how much virus is sequestered in genital tissues and in fluid such as semen, particularly if the body is fighting off other infections with an inflammatory response...
Still, the statement raises the intriguing question of whether an HIV-positive person being treated successfully with ARVs can ever consider himself non-infectious. Johnston points out that if the assumption behind the Swiss statement is true, then it bodes well for efforts to control the epidemic worldwide. "We are now at the point where there are a couple million people in the developing world on ARVs, and we might at least be getting to the point where we can wonder if treating these people is actually going to reduce the spread of HIV as these people become somewhat less...