British scientist on the verge of finding cure for HIV/AIDS

Hope has been raised in the quest to find a lasting cure for the dreaded HIV/AIDS syndrome as a British man living with HIV has shown “remarkable” progress after undergoing a pioneering treatment to cure him of the disease.

Doctors told a newspaper that the scientists treating the 44-year-old patient are now hopeful of a breakthrough in what has been described as “one of the first serious attempts at a full cure for HIV”.

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Interestingly, results of the patient’s most recent blood test showed no detectable HIV was present and according to Mark Samuels, managing director of the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure; “This is one of the first serious attempts at a full cure for HIV. We are exploring the real possibility of curing HIV.

“This is a huge challenge and it’s still early days but the progress has been remarkable”, he noted.

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