This article gives a lot of hope for HIV patients or anyone related to or a friend of one. United states researchers announced this week that the success of a new gene therapy trial brings us one step closer to a 'functional cure' for HIV. This study involved copying the effects of a naturally occurring mutation that makes a the patient resistant to infection, this therapy aims to reduce or terminate the dependency of HIV patients on "anti-retroviral drugs".
The article says, "Out of the six HIV patients treated with the new therapy, which works by stopping the virus from getting inside the white blood cells it normally infects, one patient had completely cleared the virus and a further two saw a ten-fold drop in virus levels, despite not taking any antiretroviral drugs." This study can potentially change the lives of many and save many who are nearing their end after fighting the battle with HIV.
I chose to review this article because I find advancements in medical treatments interesting. The way we have discovered so much when it comes to medication is amazing, but we continue to keep advancing and finding more and more treatments. It was once thought that treating HIV was impossible, but this recent research has made scientists think otherwise.
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