New achievements: Antiretroviral drugs with only 1 injection 1

US researchers have discovered a vaccine that can help monkey bodies become immune to HIV for 3 months.

US researchers have tested a vaccine that can help the monkey's body become immune to HIV for 3 months. This finding could lead to a major breakthrough in the successful study of drugs to prevent HIV infection in humans.

In the trial, the researchers injected GSK744 - a long-lasting antiviral drug for six female monkeys. Then, every two weeks, a liquid containing a virus that causes immunodeficiency and a hybrid version of the human AIDS virus is pumped into the female monkey's vagina - similar to having sex with infected individual monkey.

As a result, none of the monkeys were protected by infected GSK744 . Rockefeller University researchers (USA) did a similar experiment with 16 monkeys using the same drug. They give the virus an anal to simulate anal sex.

The results were the same - all monkeys that were given protection drugs were immune, the remaining individuals not vaccinated with GSK744 were infected.

Dr. David Ho of Rockefeller University said: "With this result, we will study to get a preliminary test in humans. If the results are positive, larger scale trials will conducted".

Dr. David Ho and his colleagues conducted research on drugs that treat AIDS

Mitchell J. Warren - executive director of AVAC - an advocacy organization for AIDS prevention and treatment, said that people at risk of HIV infection will need some options, as well as women to choose contraceptives. suits you.

However, he is also concerned about the particularly severe rate of failure in African women. Because some participants studied previous drugs (antiviral drugs must be used daily), they feared rumors about the side effects of the drugs. Many others said, they are very afraid to store medicine in the house because most likely the partner or neighbor sees and misunderstands, they are sick, it is very embarrassing.

Therefore, the researchers hope that the discovery of this drug will be very helpful for people who must use antiviral drugs regularly. Thereby, it opens new hope in the prevention of AIDS disease in the century.