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Now 14 adults with HIV have been ‘functionally cured’

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Early treatment of HIV can result in a functional cure for around 10 percent of patients say French researchers. The conclusion comes from a study of 14 people who were given anti-viral drugs very soon after becoming infected with HIV. Seven years after stopping treatment, the patients still showed no signs of the virus “rebounding”.

 

U.N.: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996

The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS about 33 million has remained virtually unchanged for ...

 

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