HealthLos Angeles TimesAt San Francisco General, researchers are learning how to control HIV without drugs
San Francisco researchers trained the immune systems of HIV patients to control the virus without drugs, with seven out of ten keeping it suppressed after stopping treatment.
Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital's famed AIDS clinic have shown the immune system can be primed to keep the virus in check — a promising advance just as U.S. funding cuts threaten future research.
Researchers at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital showed the immune system can be primed to control HIV without antiretroviral drugs, publishing results in Nature.
Seven of ten participants kept the virus under control after stopping daily medication, and in one person HIV remained undetectable for more than 18 months, the study found.
The study was small and lacked a control group, but researchers say it is the first real evidence that decades of pursuit of an immune-based HIV control strategy can work.
The study was small and lacked a control group, and researchers say the treatment is far too complex for routine use yet, so ask your doctor before drawing conclusions.
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