Now 14 adults with HIV have been ‘functionally cured’
Scientists are celebrating news of a breakthrough in HIV research.
Two weeks after the news first emerged that a baby girl in Mississippi had been ‘cured’ of the HIV virus there is more evidence that a further 14 adults may have been ‘functionally cured’.
The report comes from the Pasteur Institute’s unit in Paris where 70 patients have been monitored by HIV researchers. The majority of participants, who had come off their treatment for a variety of reasons, relapsed as soon as they stopped medication. However, 14 of the adults, known as the ‘Visconti Cohort’, did not relapse and have been medication-free for an average of seven years.
The patients had all started antiretroviral drugs very soon after being infected, from 35 days to 10 weeks and had been taking the drugs for an average of three years.
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