Philippines tries to reverse trend in new HIV detections
The recently-released 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan under the Duterte administration noted the "substantial increase" in newly-diagnosed HIV cases since 2010. The 33-year-total of recorded HIV cases, including deaths, is already near the 40,000 mark (39,622). HIV cases reported among Filipinos aged 15-to-24 at the time of their being reported reached 10,720 cases. The Philippines is said to be a "low-prevalence" HIV country, with the 39,622 cases well below one percent of the total Philippine population. However, its annual growth rates of HIV infection rate are among the fastest in the Asia-Pacific region, says a December 2016 report by the US-based Human Rights Watch.
Discovery of an HIV reservoir marker : A new avenue toward eliminating the virus
Discovery of an HIV reservoir marker : A new avenue toward eliminating the virusFrench researchers have identified a marker that makes it possible to differentiate "dormant" HIV-infected cells from healthy cells. After comparing infected cells and healthy cells,1 they noticed one particular protein, coded by a gene among the hundred of those expressed in a specific way by infected cells. Present only on the surface of the infected cells, the CD32a protein thus met, in vitro, the criteria of a reservoir cell marker. To envisage eliminating this dormant virus, a first stage consists in distinguishing the HIV-infected reservoir cells from their healthy counterpart cells, which resemble them to a very large degree. This is what has been achieved by a team of researchers, who have identified a marker of reservoir cells: a protein present only on the surface of infected cells.collected by :Lucy William
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