A new Hiv Treatment has shown promise for helping people living with the disease. The treatment, an infusion of a specific antibody designed to fight against a wide array of Hiv Strains concurrently, was observed by researchers to safely lower the level of HIV in a chronically affected person’s blood providing that person was not already on antiretroviral therapy (ART). This technique of infusing an antibody that fights multiple HIV strains at once is known as passive immunization and was outlined in an issue of Science Translational Medicine earlier this month where a bevy of researchers published their findings. “Passive immunization with neutralizing antibodies could therefore aid in viral suppression in HIV-infected individuals,” the authors concluded. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this study, a Phase 1 trial, saw 15 volunteers who were already receiving ART and eight who were not receiving it get the antibody infusion. The ART […]