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Researchers develop new HIV treatment

03/09/2010 12:00:00
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Israeli researchers have developed a new treatment for HIV that kills human cells infected with the virus and could lead to a breakthrough in treating AIDS, the Haaretz newspaper said on Friday.
Whereas current treatments focus on inhibiting the replication of the HIV virus, the new treatment destroys infected cells without damaging healthy ones, the newspaper reported.
“The usual medications kill the virus that has entered the body during infection and the (peptide) treatment allows cells infected with the genetic load of the virus to be killed,” Abraham Loyter, who carried out the study, was quoted as saying.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed British journal “AIDS Research and Therapy” in August and was co-authored by Loyter, Aviad Levin, Zvi Hayouka, and Assaf Friedler.

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