Professor Salim Abdool Karim from the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) updated researchers at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on the progress that’s being made in using broadly neutralising anti-bodies to treat HIV.
The super anti-body has been discovered in the DNA of a KwaZulu-Natal woman.
Abdool-Karim says a batch of these anti-bodies is being developed at a cost of about 15-million dollars.
“We will inject this anti body into people in about June next year to establish whether its safe before we proceed to doing a trial to see whether this anti body can protect young women from getting HIV infections. And we want to see if it can protect them because if it does, it’s a game change, this could change the way in which the epidemic is spreading in Africa.”