New therapy helps boost immune system of HIV patients - The Guardian 22nd February 2008

Doctors have boosted the immune systems of long-term HIV patients with a new therapy designed to protect them from common but potentially lethal infections. The treatment doubled the number of immune cells HIV patients had circulating in their blood, suggesting it was rebuilding their ailing immune systems. Infection with HIV wipes out immune cells and ultimately leads to the collapse of the entire immune system, leaving patients vulnerable to even minor infections.

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