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For the first time, research on AIDS viruses is done through genetic analysis. This time, international scientists have discovered three genes that can help some HIV patients control this deadly virus and delay the onset of AIDS.

After 18 months of research, scientists confirmed in some people, the transformation of specific genes in immune system cells can help control the HIV virus. By gene imaging technology for 486 Swiss, Italian, British, Australian, Spanish and Danish HIV patients, experts found that 1 in 3 genes were found among the system control genes. Human leukemia (HLA), a system that plays a key role in the immune system, can be resistant to HIV. That is the HLA-C gene.

According to experts, while HIV can easily " neutralize " two " neighbor " genes, HLA-A and B, because when it enters the body, the virus " locks " these two genes to the immune system not accepting them as " strange objects ", it must "surrender" before HLA-C. Experts say HLA-C has the potential to create vaccines against HIV / AIDS, along with two other genes, including a gene called HCP5 that is rare in effective control of HIV.

Jacinta Kerabu , 42 years old - Kenia woman with AIDS immunity has been discovered by scientists (Photo: Taipeitimes.com)

AIDS is an untreatable century disease in which the HIV virus destroys the human immune system. In the first stage of the disease, when the HIV virus has not had time to turn into AIDS, a battle between the HIV virus and the human immune system has taken place.

The immune system then "regulated" key immune cells to prevent HIV virus from multiplying beyond its control. The success of the immune system in each person is very different. That is why some people's immune systems may limit HIV to the lowest level, but others cannot.

This finding opens up the prospect of preparing a vaccine against HIV / AIDS or drugs that boost the human immune system.

The study was published in the latest issue of Digital Science.