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AIDS and HIV Transmission

Resistant African Sex Workers May Have Specific Antibody Responses

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 30th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - African sex workers who become resistant to HIV infection can develop antibodies that target the virus in vaginal fluid, researchers say.

Prof. Laurent Belec and colleagues at INSERM Unit 430 at Broussais Hospital, Pierre and Marie Curie University, and Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, France, Project RETRO-CI and the National Program for the Fight Against AIDS in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia investigated antibody activity in persistently seronegative sex workers.

Some of these women demonstrated strong and compartmentalized HIV...

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