Tag: HIV

HIV donors give their bodies in a new science experiment

In the global effort to cure HIV, one of the biggest scientific barriers is locating the virus’s reservoirs — hidden sites in the body where HIV can lie dormant, invisible to antiretroviral therapy (ART). The Last Gift Study, conducted by UC San Diego and collaborators, offers a novel way forward.

AIDS cured with Egypt’s magical “kebab” machine, army claims

About 36 million people have died from AIDS around the world, with about the same number of people living with the disease. In a desperate attempt to regain the public's confidence, the Egyptian military says it has invented a "kebab" like machine to cure AIDS/HIV and Hepatitis C.