International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

SG Deeks, SR Lewin, AL Ross, J Ananworanich… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy is not curative. Given the challenges in providing lifelong therapy to a
global population of more than 35 million people living with HIV, there is intense interest in …

Challenges in the elimination of pediatric HIV-1 infection

K Luzuriaga, LM Mofenson - New England Journal of Medicine, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Challenges in the Elimination of Pediatric HIV-1 Infection | New England Journal of Medicine
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[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 persistence following extremely early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) during acute HIV-1 infection: An observational study

TJ Henrich, H Hatano, O Bacon, LE Hogan… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background It is unknown if extremely early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) may lead
to long-term ART-free HIV remission or cure. As a result, we studied 2 individuals recruited …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 in lymph nodes is maintained by cellular proliferation during antiretroviral therapy

WR McManus, MJ Bale, J Spindler… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
To investigate the possibility that HIV-1 replication in lymph nodes sustains the reservoir
during antiretroviral therapy (ART), we looked for evidence of viral replication in 5 donors …

How does the timing of antiretroviral therapy initiation in acute infection affect HIV reservoirs?

J Ananworanich, K Dubé… - Current Opinion in HIV and …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
It is clear that early ART has a greater impact in limiting the HIV reservoirs than later
treatment. However, latently infected long-lived memory CD4+ T cells persist in most early …

Initiation of antiretroviral therapy during acute HIV-1 infection leads to a high rate of nonreactive HIV serology

MS de Souza… - Reviews of Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Third-and fourth-generation immunoassays (IAs) are widely used in the
diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) …

Establishment and replenishment of the viral reservoir in perinatally HIV-1-infected children initiating very early antiretroviral therapy

M Martínez-Bonet, MC Puertas… - Clinical Infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) generally suppresses the replication
of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) but does not cure the infection, because …

Paediatric E uropean N etwork for T reatment of AIDS (PENTA) guidelines for treatment of paediatric HIV‐1 infection 2015: optimizing health in preparation for adult life

A Bamford, A Turkova, H Lyall, C Foster, N Klein… - HIV …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The 2015 Paediatric E uropean Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) guidelines provide
practical recommendations on the management of HIV‐1 infection in children in E urope and …

[HTML][HTML] Age at antiretroviral therapy initiation and cell-associated HIV-1 DNA levels in HIV-1-infected children

L Kuhn, M Paximadis, B Da Costa Dias, S Loubser… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background The latent viral reservoir is the major obstacle to achieving HIV remission and
necessitates life-long antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-infected individuals. Studies in …

[HTML][HTML] Immunity to HIV in early life

M Muenchhoff, AJ Prendergast… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The developing immune system is adapted to the exposure to a plethora of pathogenic and
non-pathogenic antigens encountered in utero and after birth, requiring a fine balance …