American Gene Technologists or AGT aims to expand the options for people living with HIV since medications available nowadays focus in controlling the activity of the virus and to prevent it from spreading to other people.
A Brazilian woman was diagnosed with HIV after she contracted the virius after sharing an unsterilized manicure equipment. The equipment was used by her cousin who is HIV positive.
Research indicates that while a majority of the 1,989 HIV+ women they have been studying since 1994 have been able to control their virus, often on and off, challenges such as mental health, unstable housing, and lack of social support constitute ongoing barriers to effective and sustained viral suppression
Each breakthrough in the search of a cure for aids takes the researchers a step closer to eliminate the HIV virus that is infecting people all over the world.