The Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor in Russia has created a fundamentally new HIV drug.
HIV
The Russian Central Research
Institute of Epidemiology has developed a new gene therapy medicine for people
who have the HIV, head of the federal health and epidemic watchdog
Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said on Wednesday.
“The Central Research Institute of
Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor created a fundamentally new drug for gene
therapy, gene prophylactic treatment and molecular vaccination against HIV.
“A highly active antiviral drug
called Dinavir, which will soon be clinically tested, has been created,’’ Popova said on the sidelines of an international
conference on HIV and AIDS in Moscow.
The official noted that Russia was
facing a number of problems related to treatment of HIV and AIDS, including
high prices for treatment and lack of proper medication.
Millions of people have been
infected with it causes for the disease were discovered in early 1980s,
prompting the development of medicine that would help tackle the deadly virus.
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