More funding is
needed if the problem of HIV is going to be eradicated in the future.
This is the opinion of Dr Gitau Mburu, senior advisor to the International
HIV/AIDS Alliance, who believes that proteins which can mediate the spread of
infection in the body could be vital to developing a cure for the illness.
He explained that some people are able to become infected by the virus yet,
due to the activity of these proteins, they never become ill and hardly need
any treatment.
Mr Mburu said if money was invested into research of this HLA – B protein,
which was discovered two decades ago, then the development of a vaccine could
also be possible.
"These discoveries have the potential to open up new avenues of
targeted vaccine and drugs to fight HIV," he added.
This comes after Lisa Power, policy director at
Terrence Higgins Trust, noted sexual health education had improved
significantly in the UK.
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Sexual health news : 23 January 2012
