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Seventh Patient Cured of HIV: Why Scientists are Excited

Mutations in the gene that encodes a receptor called CCR5 can stop HIV (blue) entering immune cells.Credit: NIAID/National Institutes of Health/SPLA 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be declared free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant. Although he has been virus-free for almost six...

Progress on HIV Vaccine?

HIV is a very complicated virus, and we haven't succeeded in making a vaccine for it yet.Image credit:CanvasSince HIV first appeared, many things have changed. New medicines help people with HIV live well and stop them from spreading the virus. But to truly beat HIV, we need a vaccine.HIV is a big problem worldwide,...