Vote for Your Health

A work prepared by Canadian scientists in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from USA, could be a new combined strategy to eliminate HIV in the body, using the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) with molecules directed against cell proliferation, such as those used to kill certain types of cancer.

Could the antitumor drugs improve the response of HIV patients on antiviral treatment? The answer, according to a study published by the journal Nature Medicine, seems to be yes. These treatments may eliminate the “trick” used by the AIDS virus to remain “hidden” in some of the body’s immune cells.

Until now, explains Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, McGill Institute of Montreal (Canada), antiretroviral therapy has met with an insurmountable obstacle to overcome any remaining body of HIV: the AIDS virus is able to “sneak , forming reservoirs in T cells belonging to the body’s defense system, which appears to be immune to treatment. Chemotherapy may be used against HIV.

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