During the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections to be held in Boston on February 22-25, Scientists and medical researchers seem to be in a more optimistic mood to resolve the haunting sexually transmitted disease – HIV/AIDS.
During the event, researchers will be presenting emerging tools to control HIV/AIDS, which would include easy-to-use prevention medicines as well as advanced research related to vaccines.hiv-aids-conference
Science has achieved a lot in the fight against HIV/AIDS disease, as an example, treatment regimens which required the patients to take dozens of pills daily, which also had various side effects, has been changed as the antiretroviral therapy requires only one pill per day without any adverse side effects.
The advancement in science has helped the HIV/AIDS infected people to have better health results and they are also less likely to transmit the virus to their partners, once they have been diagnosed with the virus sooner and begin the antiretroviral treatment. According to Boston Globe’s report,
And a daily pill, used for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), can be taken by people at high risk for HIV infection, such as gay and bisexual men. When it is taken as prescribed, it makes HIV acquisition very unlikely.