{"id":135701,"date":"2022-02-16T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/woman-is-cured-of-hiv-in-huge-breakthrough-for-virus-treatment"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:22:18","slug":"woman-is-cured-of-hiv-in-huge-breakthrough-for-virus-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/woman-is-cured-of-hiv-in-huge-breakthrough-for-virus-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Woman is cured of HIV in huge breakthrough for virus treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/woman-is-cured-of-hiv-in-huge-breakthrough-for-virus-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The fact that she\u2019s mixed race, and that she\u2019s a woman, that is really important scientifically and really important in terms of the community impact,\u2019 doctor says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The new findings were presented on Tuesday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>University of California, San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/aids\">AIDS<\/a> expert Dr Steven Deeks said that \u201cthe fact that she\u2019s mixed race, and that she\u2019s a woman, that is really important scientifically and really important in terms of the community impact,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F02%2F15%2Fhealth%2Fhiv-cure-cord-blood.html&sref=https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/hiv-cure-woman-scientists-b2015791.html\"><em>The New York Times <\/em>reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women account for the majority of global HIV cases but only make up 11 per cent of participants in cure trials. The disease is thought to develop differently in men and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The fact that she\u2019s mixed race, and that she\u2019s a woman, that is really important scientifically and really important in terms of the community impact,\u2019 doctor says. The new findings were presented on Tuesday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Denver, Colorado. University of California, San Francisco AIDS expert Dr Steven Deeks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}