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HIV Cure Within Months: Danish Scientists
SCIENTISTS in Denmark claim they’re on the brink of a “promising” breakthrough to cure HIV.
Researchers at the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark said they’re now conducting clinical trials on humans using a “novel strategy” that has worked in lab tests, London’s The Telegraph reported.
The HIV virus is “reactivated” from its hiding place within human DNA and potentially destroyed permanently by the immune system.
The move would represent a step forward in the attempt to find a cure for the virus, which causes Aids.
The technique involves unmasking the “reservoirs” formed by the HIV virus inside resting immune cells, bringing it to the surface of the cells. Once it comes to the surface, the body’s natural immune system may be able to kill the virus.
Vitro studies – those that use human cells in a laboratory – of the new technique proved so successful that in January, the Danish Research Council awarded the team 12 million Danish kroner (US$2.1 million) to pursue their findings in clinical trials with human subjects.
These are now under way, and according to Dr Ole Søgaard, a senior researcher at the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark and part of the research team, the early signs are “promising”.
“I am almost certain that we will be successful in activating HIV from the reservoirs,” he said.
“The challenge will be getting the patients’ immune system to recognise the virus and destroy it. This depends on the strength and sensitivity of individual immune systems, as well as how large a proportion of the hidden HIV is unmasked.”
Fifteen patients are currently taking part in the trials, and the first results from the trial are expected to presented in the second half of 2013.
Dr Søgaard stressed that a cure is not the same as a preventative vaccine, and that raising awareness of unsafe behaviour, including unprotected sex and sharing needles, remains of paramount importance in combating HIV.
With modern HIV treatment, a patient can live an almost normal life, even into old age, with limited side effects. However, if medication is stopped, HIV reservoirs become active and start to produce more of the virus, meaning that symptoms can reappear within two weeks.
Finding a cure would free a patient from the need to take continuous HIV medication, and save health services billions of pounds.
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xxx
May 8, 2013 at 4:43 pm
we will wait and see!!!!
izubu
May 8, 2013 at 4:46 pm
ala elyo twalabalya nomba….
xxx
May 8, 2013 at 4:52 pm
@izubu careful with these whites they may just be lying so that you starting chewing them recklessly!! BE WARNED NEVER TRUST THE WHITE MAN REMEMBER THEY BROUGTH IN THE IN THE FIRST PLACE. This advise is for all that want to starting chewing them.
Jackal
May 8, 2013 at 4:59 pm
FAST IMWE TWALAFWA KUBUCHENDE!!!WOMEN ARE LOOKING PRETTIER THAN 20 YEARS AGO. LOW CUT JEANS , BRAZILIAN HAIR , WAIT I REST SHOES AND SKIN TIGHT JEANS AWE PLIZ FAST FIND THE CURE!!
Ba game
May 8, 2013 at 5:12 pm
ya! ya! ya! ya!… this is a nyc devlopmnt news i’v eva hed, batumfweko keep it up. nakulatombafye ichitombe tombe abakote, abakashana nabaiche bonse nikaufela.
Phiri
May 8, 2013 at 5:34 pm
This is a lie. How come I haven’t seen it in any media here in Europe?
hottt
May 8, 2013 at 5:58 pm
BA game tamwakatombefye nopo mwafumiine, you overexcited
Democrat
May 8, 2013 at 6:23 pm
Good riddance, tired of condoms.
TUNTATUNTA
May 8, 2013 at 6:57 pm
UKAPONYA NEITUNTULU KULAPOPAFYE PFWA ABANTU PASHALA IFWE……..
Elijah
May 8, 2013 at 7:10 pm
This is not news. Dr Sondashi already has a cure for HIV
Elijah
May 8, 2013 at 7:22 pm
This will not be very good news for the people who produce ARVs,and all the NGOs who make money from the existence of this desease
Barotse diaspora
May 8, 2013 at 8:39 pm
True this danish sun of a bussines scientist wil loose its investment interms of material,machinery and employment for manufacturing medic cure.because patients who wil be cured are less than victims been involved.its a zig zag puzzle
musuma
May 8, 2013 at 8:47 pm
banaka ukutuma fye ama funds ya HIV & AIDS programs. kale ba sanga cure
ONJA
May 8, 2013 at 10:19 pm
My dear you will finish like no mans’ business. God has given you the opportunity to care of your bodies and not to misuse them through sex. What ever you do under the planet Earth, do it unto the glory of God. Jesus is coming soon to reward each and every person accordingly. Matt 21 vs 1……
ONJA
May 8, 2013 at 10:33 pm
One wife kwasila if you are married. But if you are not then abstain that so. We are busy running up and down with these incurable diseases, its because we have forsaken the commandments of God. Exodus 20 vs 1……. Revelation 14 vs 6 -14. 1 Corinthians 7 vs 1…….
Africa the blessed Continent
May 9, 2013 at 1:58 am
How come it is only Africa that has been hardest hit does it mean the rest of the continents are not practicing fornication and Adultery.
Schemes
May 8, 2013 at 11:21 pm
Useless..
Africa the blessed Continent
May 9, 2013 at 1:59 am
meant are not sinners , adulterers and fornicators.
Hussen Daka
May 9, 2013 at 2:45 pm
To you Africa in here in England its not like there is more prostitution in Africa than other parts of the World here in England some woman are married to dogs and dogs **** them day in and day out.
So Africa is better in every way that is why you find that a of people here have learning difficults if the woman has not had sex with a dog then she has used a plastic vibrators 75% of them. including a of Zambians here in UK.
Akaice ne fimina
May 9, 2013 at 7:08 am
@Africa the Blessed continent, it’s true Africa is the hardest hit because:
1) We have the fewest activities of entertainment and
2) Sex is the biggest form of employment in Africa.
If this cure is real, many girls will go into sex for a living.
2016 for Lubinda
May 9, 2013 at 9:33 am
what happens to people studying degrees in HIV AIDS management at chite ichi University? no jobs for them?
HIV-AIDS
May 9, 2013 at 11:36 am
Pliz,where can I find Mr Sondashi or his mobile No.
bm
May 9, 2013 at 1:08 pm
i wish de world nt 2 find de cure and wish de world 2c more deadly diseases than aids,coz though having dis killer disease pipo stil misbehave.so no cure 4de world Full Stop.
cindy
May 9, 2013 at 4:48 pm
@hussen daka,walasa on point..i also ve a vibrator and use it everyday til I find a healthy man..i ve a problem wit men not wanting to take an hiv test..hence..my relationships never last..
BC Lombe
May 9, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Vibrator that is mustabation mwalifulushafye bakashana. here in US too much lesbians.
ndumba
May 9, 2013 at 5:53 pm
twalya live again
Mutombe
May 10, 2013 at 11:16 am
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