AIDS Therapies (Immunology)

Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 13th, 1996

Duke University researchers and physicians are set to launch a multipronged attack against HIV and employ clinical strategies never before tested.

Using a $4 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), two sets of experiments are planned to be conducted that aim to annihilate HIV from infected patients as much as possible, and to then rebuild their immune system.

During the process, Duke researchers hope to increase science's understanding of how the virus reacts to both drug treatments and novel forms of reconstituting protective immunity.

"We are pushing the envelope of what is known and what can be imagined...

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