Sida : les nouveaux traitements pourraient mettre fin à la transmission du virus d’ici 2030
DECRYPTION - As Paris hosts the 20th European AIDS Conference this week, therapeutic progress is raising great hopes, but declining international funding threatens this historic goal.
At the 20th European AIDS Conference , held from October 15 to 18 in Paris, the UN goal of eliminating the HIV epidemic by 2030 was once again at the center of discussions. For Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Bichat Hospital and director of ANRS – Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS-MIE), the 2030 ambition must first be clarified: " We are not talking about eradicating the virus itself. There are 40 million people living with HIV, but about eradicating its transmission ."
Scientific progress makes this prospect credible. " We now have all the necessary tools ," assures Professor Yazdanpanah . The major trend? Injectable treatments that last for several months. One of the latest, the anti-retrovirus lenacapavir, requires only two injections per year. It is already used in treatment and is particularly interesting...
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