A cure for HIV is critically important for Africa due to the continent's heavy burden from the disease. Africa bears a disproportionately high HIV prevalence, with around 8 million people living with HIV in South Africa alone.
At the 25th International AIDS Conference in Munich, all Africa 's Melody Chironda met Marc Franke, the 55-year-old from Germany known as the"Düsseldorf Patient". Franke, who once had HIV and leukemia, shared his inspiring journey of overcoming both illnesses. His story, filled with optimism, called for the importance of scientific collaboration and the support of loved ones.
Dr. Guinevere Lee, assistant professor of virology in medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, and her team analyzed DNA from immune cells called CD4+ T cells, where viral DNA hides, of 16 women and 7 men receiving antiretroviral HIV treatment in Uganda, Nature
Dr Lee described the process as"looking for a needle in a haystack", but their newly developed laboratory test finds and measures the amount of"genome-intact proviruses remain in the body during antiretroviral treatment". This allows them to measure the persistence of HIV in individuals affected by viral strains predominantly found in Africa.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
Dr. Lee and her multinational, multi-institution collaborators are already using the new laboratory test to study long-term viral persistence in Uganda.It is estimated that 39.9 million people worldwide are living with HIV, around 70% of whom are in Africa. While progress has been made in reducing new HIV infections, cases are still increasing in the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America.
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