Bone marrow therapy: Hope as third Aids patient is treated with HIV-resistant stem cells in Germany
A 53-year-old man in Germany has become at least the third person with HIV to be declared cleared of the virus after a procedure that replaced his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor. For years, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been given to people with HIV with...
Covid lessons: WHO drafts new code to help world to better prepare for future pandemics
The global response to Covid-19 represented a “catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity”. This frank assessment and admission comes in the opening line of the first or ‘zero’, draft of a new international pandemic agreement, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The...
