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HIV-positive ‘elite controllers’ offer clues for cure – Bangkok Post
TOKYO: A handful of people with HIV are able to control the disease without treatment, and now research on these so-called elite controllers is offering clues in the search for a cure.
TOKYO: A handful of people with HIV are able to control the disease without treatment, and now research on these so-called elite controllers is offering clues in the search for a cure.
For most people with HIV, controlling the virus requires a daily, life-long regime of anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
This treatment must be followed continuously because of the nature of HIV and how it replicates.
When it enters the body, HIV puts copies of its viral genetic material into the genome of a cell -…
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