Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 8, 2012

These important discoveries about HIV treatment in 2012

Along with the advancement of medicine and desire to conquer the disease, in 2012 marked many breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV.
HIV-infected mothers can still breastfeed

   Previously, for HIV-infected mothers, doctors usually recommend the selection of children drinking milk instead of breastfeeding to reduce the risk of infection. However, according to new research published in the workshop and the retro virus infections (CROI) 18th in Boston (USA) in May 3-2011, providing for infants in a daily dose of nevirapine throughout the first six months will halve the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child.

   Even those mothers with a high proportion of T cells, can decrease to 75%. The effectiveness of this method the higher the number in previous studies with nevirapine use short time days (about 6 or 15 weeks - the method of Pepi-Malawi).

   However, there is a restriction only applies to the treatment of mothers with CD4 cell percentage greater than 350 and not made treatment with anti-retro viral (HIV most common form).

   Thus, the mother is comfortable with certain breastfeeding breastfeeding to ensure that the valuable nutrients.

   Although still at risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding mother, but another study indicated, the antibodies in breast milk, when isolated, can kill HIV and HIV infected cells . If, however, is integrated in breast milk, these antibodies have limited the virus is very low due to the different antibody called IgG. Scientists are trying to increase computing capacity of anti-HIV antibodies in breast milk.

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