Hope Is Round The Corner For HIV Patients, But There Is Some Way To Go

There is more stress on holding a HIV eradication workshop where scientists and researchers can trade their findings and also speed up the process of finding a permanent solution to AIDS cure. The two goals of holding workshops are to find a cure and develop a vaccine for preventing the replecation of the virus after antiretroviral therapy is stopped. There have been many instances where the virus has remained dormant and hid in reservoirs only to make a comeback after the ART is discontinued. It has been found that the virus can return to undo the good work done by ART 10 years later.

The virus has been seen to come alive after the ART is stopped. As soon as the first infection sets in, the reservoirs are created. Modern day research and consultations at workshops have resulted in early treatment in the form of ART. If ART is administered at the very early stages of infection, forming of reservoirs can be avoided. It has also been found that detecting the reservoirs is not easy. The need of the hour is to hold more and more workshops to solve the mystery of the hidden HIV reservoir. Scientists and doctors are foxed at the extent of damage reservoirs can wreck. Even after successful ART, many patients have experienced recurrence of the virus in some form or other.

The high costs of medicines and therapy are also the subject of discussions in a HIV reservoirs workshop. New age vaccines can prevent the recurrence of the virus, but research cost lots and lots of money. The amount of money ART and drugs can cost is mind boggling. While medication costs $ 600,000, ART can also cost a similar amount and is out of reach for patients belonging to developing nations where the incidence of AIDS is higher. But, there is good news round the corner.

A company may have developed a medication that can help HIV affected patients. Instead of trying to killing the virus, which scientists have found impossible to achieve during their past researches, the new drug, known as KP -1461, can actually mutate HIV. The new medication, which is expected to be path breaking in finding in HIV cure, can cause the virus to go on a self destructive spree.

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