hiv
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Doctors Successfully Perform World’s First HIV-Infected Liver Transplant
Physicians from Johns Hopkins Medicine have performed two landmark organ transplantations involving an HIV-positive liver and kidney. It’s a historic precedent that will do much to alleviate the ongoing organ shortage, while paving the way towards similar transplants involving other diseases.
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The Deadly Legacy Of HIV Truthers
AIDS was a terrifying mystery, and then we solved it. When researchers identified the human immunodeficiency virus as the reason why young, previously healthy people were developing rare cancers and wasting away, it was a triumph of medical science.
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Why Are HIV Survival Rates Lower In The Deep South Than The Rest Of The US?
The Deep South region has become the epicentre of the US HIV epidemic. Despite having only 28 per cent of the total US population, nine states in the Deep South account for nearly 40 per cent of national HIV diagnoses. This region has the highest HIV diagnosis rates and the highest number of people living…
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Scientists Can Now Cut HIV Out Of Human DNA
HIV is a sneaky virus. Its MO involves integrating its own genes into your DNA, so that even as antiretrovirals hold everything in check, HIV lurks quietly inside your cells. Now scientists have found a way to edit the virus straight out of the human genome — a potential cure for even latent infections.