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Obama administration unveiling national HIV/AIDS strategy
Loading ...The Obama administration unveils its national strategy Tuesday for fighting HIV and AIDS.
The strategy will focus on three areas: reducing the number of people who become infected, increasing access to care and decreasing HIV-related health disparities.
The announcement comes less than a week after a group of scientists published a study saying they had made a key discovery that could help in the development of an HIV vaccine.
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said last week that they had found three human antibodies that neutralize more than 90 percent of the current circulating HIV-1 strains.
“This is significant because we’ve now found antibodies that are good templates for HIV vaccine development,” said Peter Kwong, co-author of the study published last Thursday in the journal Science.
But even with promising scientific advances, the number of people living with HIV infection in the United States is higher than ever before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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