The COVID pandemic has touched everyone, including people living with HIV. Co-founder of The Institute of Many, Nic Dorward, spoke to the new president of the International AIDS Society, Professor Sharon Lewin, in the lead-up to World AIDS Day 2022. They discuss the ongoing importance of a search for an HIV cure. The COVID pandemic…
HIV infection takes a heavy toll on the gut. The virus enters the body and heads straight for the stomach and intestines. This is harmful, destroying most of the immune cells that live in the gut. This early damage sets the scene for some of the big problems of ongoing HIV infection. One of these…
HIV infection can be kept in check with antiretroviral therapy, but treatment has to continue for life or the virus quickly gets out of control. Recent research from the Rockefeller University in New York shows the potential of neutralising antibody infusions to manage HIV when normal treatment is stopped. The new study assessed infusions of…
Enrolment has begun in the first of two multinational clinical trials of an intravenously delivered investigational antibody for preventing HIV infection. Known as the AMP Studies, for antibody-mediated prevention, the trials will test whether giving people an investigational anti-HIV antibody called VRC01 as an intravenous infusion every 8 weeks is safe, tolerable and effective at…
A Royal Perth Hospital immunologist investigating the possibility of using an antibody to trigger natural immune responses to fight HIV is one of 131 researchers benefitting from about $6 million of State Government funding. Announcing round 18 of the annual Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (MHRIF) grants, Health Minister Dr Kim Hames said Professor…
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Working together with researchers and clinicians at The Alfred, members of the community of people living with HIV in Victoria have been integral to progressing ...
