'New Vaccines’ Technology on ‘HIV and AIDS Treatment’ Unveiled for 2017 and Beyond

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HIV &AIDS has been put to an end as new vaccines and technology were developed to halt a disease that has kept people in doomed for many years. Reports have been circulating around the world and the web about recent breakthroughs combating the dreadful HIV and AIDS.

The latest medical advancement about curing the HIV and AIDS was the new vaccines developed at the University of Oxford called the Antiretroviral Therapy, or ART in a nutshell. This new vaccine gives aid to the immune system of the person having AIDS by assaulting the cell infected with HIV, according to Labiotech.

Oxford researchers on HIV and AIDS tested the new vaccine in 15 patients, with five out these 15 patients declared as completely free of HIV. What is more commendable with the result was one of the patients has already been seven months cleared.

The effect of this latest vaccine to treat HIV has been noted to be a thousand times stronger versus other vaccines in boosting an infected person's immune system. Furthermore, this recent breakthrough in battling AIDS made use of cancer drugs that function as an activator of the HIV reservoirs, which allows the immune system to eliminate viruses.

Aside from this newly-developed vaccine that promises a lot of potentials to cure HIV and AIDS, a new technology also arises to further solidify the bid for the cure and prevention of the disease. Intarcia Therapeutics, a firm based in Boston, has created a reliable device to protect people and prevent them from acquiring HIV.

The firm invented the "Medici Drug Delivery System," a device that aid people to stick to their medication routine while reducing worries on acquiring and storing HIV/AIDS drugs. The company's CEO Kurt Graves said that "the new technology has the potential to open up a new way of delivering novel medicines just once-yearly."