{"id":72239,"date":"2017-08-29T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/experimental-treatment-causes-hiv-infected-cells-to-vanish-from-patients-blood"},"modified":"2017-08-29T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:05:12","slug":"experimental-treatment-causes-hiv-infected-cells-to-vanish-from-patients-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/experimental-treatment-causes-hiv-infected-cells-to-vanish-from-patients-blood","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Treatment Causes HIV Infected Cells To \u201cVanish\u201d From Patient\u2019s Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-treatment-causes-hiv-infected-cells-to-vanish-from-patients-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs360\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">35 million lives so far<\/a>, and the \u201ccured\u201d man is one of just 50 people currently undergoing this experimental therapy, a small percentage of the estimated 36.7 million people currently living with HIV, only 54 percent of whom know their status.<\/p>\n<p>While the results of the treatment out of the UK are promising, those dormant T cells could still be lurking in the patient, so this new treatment can\u2019t yet be considered a \u201ccure.\u201d However, it is another encouraging step forward on the path to one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue with medical tests for the next five years and at the moment we are not recommending stopping Art but in the future, depending on the test results we may explore this,\u201d said Fidlar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/experimental-treatment-causes-hiv-cells-to-vanish-from-patients-blood\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/experimental-treatment-causes-hiv-cells...nts-blood\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far, and the \u201ccured\u201d man is one of just 50 people currently undergoing this experimental therapy, a small percentage of the estimated 36.7 million people currently living with HIV, only 54 percent of whom know their status. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72239","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}