A German man has become the third person ever to be effectively “cured” of HIV thanks to a stem cell transplant ten years ago. His breakthrough case was first announced in 2019, it wasn’t until Monday that researchers confirmed he was indeed HIV-free. “We don’t think there’s a functional virus present,” Dr. Björn Jensen, the … Read more
The last HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, researchers announced Wednesday, dealing yet another blow to the decades-long efforts to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Called “Mosaico,” the trial began in 2019 as one of three late-phase HIV vaccine studies. Some 3,900 men and transgender people between the ages of 18 and 60 received … Read more
In early 2018, Dr. He Jiankui, a then-34-year-old Chinese biophysicist, traveled to an Arizona science conference to meet with one of his heroes, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson, a man who first proposed the double helix structure of DNA molecules back in 1953. Dr. He was in the midst of a big experiment of … Read more
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An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is “poised for spillover” to humans. Evoking parallels to HIV, authors are calling on global health community to be vigilant. According to new research, an obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African … Read more
Posed by models (Photo: Shutterstock) The trial of a potential HIV cure is underway. The scientists involved hope for initial results by November. One of them also has stark warnings about the threat to humanity of future pandemics. He believes that, as seen with HIV and monkeypox, gay men could be the “canary in the … Read more
An example of monkeypox rash. image, Shutterstock ,Shutterstock, A 36-year-old man in Italy appears uniquely unlucky, after being hospitalized and diagnosed with Covid-19, monkeypox and HIV over a period of a week in July. Thankfully, his covid and monkeypox co-infection ended successfully without any problems, and he has since been put on HIV treatment. His … Read more
An Italian man has become the first person in the world to test positive for COVID-19, monkeypox and HIV in a single day. An Italian man has become the first person in the world to test positive for COVID-19, monkeypox and HIV in a single day. According to a case study in the Journal of … Read more