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Using a mathematical model of HIV onset and treatment to simulate hypothetical patients from real data, researchers—led by Rochelle P. Walensky of Mass. General Hospital—projected the number of AIDS-related deaths through 2012 in South Africa under five scenarios...
Though Congress has not yet decided whether to reauthorize the AIDS relief plan, Mass. General Hospital received a five-year, $20.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to research the possibility of a vaccine that would limit the replication of the HIV virus in those infected by the virus...
Bruce D. Walker, who is leading the study, estimates that one in every 300 individuals has the genetic makeup to control HIV without medication...
...Basically, there is an extraordinary group of people who have been infected with HIV for up to 30 years and who have never gotten sick,” said Walker, who is the director of the Partners AIDS Research Center at the hospital. “The goal of this project is to figure out why that is and whether we can replicate that in other people...
MIMIC's speed and flexibility makes it particularly attractive to AIDS vaccine researchers. As things stand, it takes months for potential AIDS vaccines to graduate from small-animal trials to monkey studies. "That takes a lot of time, and, with HIV, we don't have a lot of time," says Koff. "We asked the question is there a way to do it faster and take it to humans more quickly...