Browsing: HIV/AIDS prevalence in Africa

• Using Nobel-Prize-winning CRISPR gene-editing technology, scientists have made a huge stride in eliminating HIV from infected body cells.
• Research from the University of Amsterdam is promising a future where the complete eradication of the virus could become a reality.
• With an estimated 25.6 million people living with HIV in Africa, the continent remains at the epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

A new scientific breakthrough is offering hope in the battle against the HIV/AIDS virus that has long evaded a definitive cure, leaving millions of people in Africa devastated.

By harnessing the precision of Nobel-Prize-winning CRISPR gene-editing technology, scientists say they have made a huge stride in eliminating HIV from infected body cells.

This innovative approach, akin to using molecular scissors, can excise the DNA such that HIV can be entirely removed and or inactivated in patients.

This development presented by a University of Amsterdam team of scientists at a …