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he data, which demonstrate that SB-728-T treatment results in a reduction in the HIV reservoir in HIV-infected subjects, are being presented at the 16^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT).
15 May 2013 | Benzinga
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David Evans of Project Inform dissects the hype around the UK Sunday Telgraph story that HIV would be cured "within months".
Contrary to some hysterically hyped headlines this past week, HIV is not on the verge of being cured in the next three months, nor have scientists found an effective vaccine. The truth is that a hopeful compound to force HIV out of hiding is under study, and the results should be known in the near future.
10 May 2013 | thebody.com
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Numerous news outlets have inaccurately reported that Danish researchers are, according to one publication, “within months” of finding a cure for HIV.
10 May 2013 | AIDSMeds
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Strategies for pursuing a HIV cure, the impact of starting antiretroviral therapy at higher CD4 counts and innovative models for HIV testing and care are among the scientific topics featured in the IAS 2013 programme.
08 May 2013 | International AIDS Society
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The Telegraph's title and subtitle suggested that a cure for HIV is expected in months. But this is not the case, according to the Danish researchers from Aarhus University Hospital whose work was cited by the paper.
08 May 2013 | Aarhus University Hospital press release
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UD assistant professor Ryan Zurakowski has reported a new modeling technique that reveals HIV may be replicating in the body even when undetectable in the blood.
08 May 2013 | University of Delaware Daily
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The April issue of Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics features an excellent open access review by Thomas Rasmussen and colleagues describing approaches to eliminating HIV reservoirs that are advancing into clinical trials.
01 May 2013 | Treatment Action Group
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What to make of all the recent “cured of AIDS” headlines? An American in Berlin, a baby in Mississippi and 14 patients in France are all alive without treatment. Is a cure at hand? No. But in unusual cases, some people seem able, with temporary help from antiretroviral drugs, to kill the virus before it can sink into reservoirs deep in their bodies — or to at least force it to stand at the doorways of their cells, unable to get in.
30 April 2013 | New York Times
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Researchers believe that there will be a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV “within months”.
28 April 2013 | Sunday Telegraph
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A University of Minnesota team performed an unprecedented transplant on Tuesday in an effort to cure a 12-year-old boy who has both HIV and leukemia. Their potential solution: umbilical cord blood containing a protein known to protect a person against HIV.
25 April 2013 | MPR News
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