HIV The Disease

At present, there are hopes of achieving a complete HIV cure and functional HIV cure whereby all HIV positive cells are eradicated from the system of an infected individual receiving HAART is to some extent remote. Instead, research efforts are being poured into achieving a functional HIV cure to limit the size of the HIV reservoir of latent cells and decrease the amount of damage inflicted on the immune system since the untimely stages of HIV infection.

Due to this, the latest research is working on combining HAART with HIV eradication regimes designed to force the viral expression of latent cells to assist in their destruction via virus or immune mediated mechanisms. A number of studies have by now shown that initiating HAART during acute HIV infection limits the occurrence of the latent HIV reservoir and reduces HIV persistence while preserving HIV specific T cell responses.

Patients having H.I.V. have 96 percent lower chance to pass on the infection if they were taking antiretroviral drugs. This is a finding that is so tempting that it is probable to change the way American AIDS doctors treat patients and what treatment policies are adopted by the World Health Organization and other countries, said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which paid for the trial.

There have been earlier studies, particularly among drug abusers in San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia, that concluded that starting patients on drugs at once would stop them from infecting others.

Those studies led Unaids, the United Nations AIDS-fighting agency, to take up test and treat as its target last year; the policy encourages doctors to set up the treatment as soon as they test positive for H.I.V. However, this is the first evidence from a randomized clinical trial, the gold standard in medical research. AIDS prevention specialists are not connected to the trial as they were enthusiastic. The infected person started treatment only when his or her CD4 count which is a measure of the immune system’s strength had dropped below 250 per cubic millimeter.

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