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Treating patients quickly after HIV infection could prove a means of developing a "functional cure"

HIV UPDATE - Early treatment

DRUM Magazine

4 April 2013

Treating HIV-positive people quickly after they become infected may be enough to achieve a "functional cure" in patients diagnosed early, according to new research published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.

Scientists in France monitored 14 patients who were treated with HIV drugs soon after infection.

Seven years after discontinuing therapy the number of infected cells circulating in their blood kept falling...read the full article


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