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Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trial
Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.
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German Man with HIV Becomes Third Patient to be Cleared of Virus with Stem-Cell Therapy
A 53-year-old man in Germany, referred to as the "Düsseldorf patient," has become at least the third person to be declared cured of HIV. The man underwent a bone marrow transplant in 2013, replacing his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor who carried the genetic mutation CCR5Δ32/Δ32, which prevents the CCR5 protein from being expressed on the cell surface.
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5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
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Third person cured of HIV after stem cell transplant, researchers say
The patient in Germany was given the transplant to help treat a blood disorder, which in his case was leukaemia, that had developed alongside his HIV infection, and after four years of not taking anti-retroviral medicine, he has not relapsed.
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Preacher calls gay people “AIDS dispensers” in disgusting rant
In a recent sermon, Christian preacher Jason Graber declared that gay people were “AIDS dispensers” who should not be “able to breathe air.” The rant began with Graber discussing how former President Trump made “a bunch of mistakes.”
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Personal lubricant made from cow mucus may protect against HIV
In a laboratory study, human epithelial cells were treated with the lubricant before being exposed to HIV or a herpes virus, with subsequent infection rates being as low as 20 per cent.
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First person to ever be treated with CRISPR-based HIV gene therapy
A new gene-editing therapy for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) is being tested on individuals
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Fourth patient seemingly cured of HIV
A man who has lived with HIV since the 1980s seems to have been cured in only the fourth such case, say doctors. He was given a bone marrow transplant to treat blood cancer leukaemia from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus. The 66-year-old, who does not want to be identified, has stopped taking HIV medication.
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Free HIV self-test kits now available to the public across Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan residents are now able to test themselves for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at home. Free HIV self-test kits are available to the general public at 23 locations across the province. The province said test kits can also be purchased online and delivered directly from the manufacturer to a Saskatchewan resident's home.
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Moderna launches clinical trial for HIV vaccine that uses mRNA technology
Moderna announced Thursday that it's launched early-stage clinical trials of an HIV mRNA vaccine. The biotechnology company has teamed up with the nonprofit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to develop the shot, which uses the same technology as Moderna's successful COVID-19 vaccine.
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Researchers hope to find Cure for HIV by 2030, trials on humans starts Next year
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) and this syndrome interferes with the immune system of our body. Slowly, our body’s ability to fight against infections will be suppressed.
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Scientists report finding a second person ‘naturally’ cured of HIV
“This gives us hope that the human immune system is powerful enough to ... eliminate all the functional virus,” said the senior author.
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Woman’s own immune system has possibly cured her of HIV
A woman in Argentina has become only the second documented person whose own immune system may have cured her of HIV. Researchers have dubbed the 30-year-old mother, who was first diagnosed with HIV in 2013, the “Esperanza patient,” after the town in Argentina where she lives. In English, “esperanza” means “hope.”
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FDA Approves First Human Trial for Potential CRISPR-Led HIV Cure
The first-in-human clinical trial for a candidate treatment for individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is starting soon after its maker, Excision BioTherapeutics, today received an Investigational New Drug clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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A new AIDS vaccine heads to clinical trials
One silver lining to the covid-19 pandemic has been the speed with which effective vaccines have been developed. Victims of other pandemics have not been so lucky. Three decades of attempts to create a vaccine against hiv, the virus that causes aids, have proved fruitless. The latest setback came on August 31st, when an experimental vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson, an American pharmaceutical firm, flunked a clinical trial. One obstacle is hiv’s genetic slipperiness. The virus has a high mutation rate, which helps it adapt to evade both natural immune systems and artificial vaccines.
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Moderna's mRNA Vaccine for HIV Is Starting Human Trials
Before 2020, many of us had never heard of mRNA. With the development of Covid-19 vaccines dependent on this molecule, though, mention of it was all over the news. In early August, the US reached the milestone of 70 percent of adults having received at least one dose of the vaccine. Covid was the first disease mRNA therapeutics tackled, and given the success of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines at preventing severe cases of the virus, it won’t be the last.
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The first mRNA-based HIV vaccine is about to start human trials
Moderna is about to begin human trials for an HIV vaccine based on the same technology used in its COVID-19 vaccine.
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A woman with HIV had the coronavirus for 216 days. The virus mutated at least 30 times inside her.
Scientist detected 32 virus mutations in the woman's body, including some seen in variants of concern. It's unclear if she passed on any of them.
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Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: “This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now”
Billy Porter takes a long deep breath. “I have to start in 2007,” he says, having settled in across the table. He’s here, at Little Owl in the West Village, to get something off...
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New HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men at their lowest in 20 years
A new report by Public Health England shows that for the first time the number of new HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men outnumber new diagnoses in heterosexual adults by only 100 cases.
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