ΣΟΒΑΡΕΣ ΕΛΠΙΔΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΘΕΡΑΠΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ AIDS

Δυό αντισώματα που έχουν την δύναμη να καταστρέψουν πάνω από το 90% των στελεχών του HIV φαίνεται να οδηγούν στην δημιουργία εμβολίου για την αποτελεσματική αντιμετώπιση του ιού. Τα δύο αντισώματα (VRCO1 και VRCO2) καταστρέφουν μεγαλύτερο ποσοστό στελεχών του θανατηφόρου ιού απ' οποιαδήποτε άλλη μέθοδο έχει χρησιμοποιηθεί έως σήμερα. Τα αντισώματα εντοπίστηκαν σε έναν φορέα ο οποίος είναι γνωστός με τον κωδικό "Donor 45". Οπως διαπιστώθηκε ο οργανισμός του φορέα παράγει τα συγκεκριμένα αντισώματα και είναι το «κλειδί» για την παρασκευή εμβολίων έστω και εάν χρειαστεί αρκετός καιρός να τα επιτευχθεί αυτό.


NIAID's HIV/AIDS Research Program
Although progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, the epidemic continues to devastate the United States and the international community with 56,300 new HIV infections each year in the U.S. and an estimated 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. As the leading U.S. government institute for HIV/AIDS research, NIAID is committed to conducting the research necessary to successfully end the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Through laboratories and clinics on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., and a vast network of supported research at universities, medical centers and clinical trial sites around the globe, NIAID is working to better understand HIV and how it causes disease, find new tools to prevent HIV infection including a preventive vaccine, develop new and more effective treatments for people infected with HIV, and hopefully, find a cure.



NIAID-supported investigators are conducting an abundance of research on all areas of HIV infection, including developing and testing preventive HIV vaccines, prevention strategies, and new treatments for HIV infection and AIDS-associated opportunistic infections.
Researchers also are investigating exactly how HIV damages the immune system. This research is identifying new and more effective targets for drugs and vaccines. NIAID-supported investigators also continue to trace how the disease progresses in different people.
Scientists are investigating and testing chemical barriers, such as topical microbicides, that people can use in the vagina or in the rectum during sex to prevent HIV transmission. They also are looking at other ways to prevent transmission, such as

Control of sexually transmitted infections

Modification of personal behavior

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

Ways to prevent transmission from mother to child