HIV patient’s blood may hold key to AIDS vaccine
NEW DELHI: Could an antibody from the blood of a HIV patient help create the elusive HIV vaccine?
The hunt has begun to identify 100 volunteers belonging to a rare group of HIV infected patients who stay healthy for years without requiring life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART). These antibodies in their blood are the ones that bars HIV from entering their blood cells and replicating , thereby progressing to AIDS.