ANTI-HIV medicines are changing the disease’s ability to cause Aids, Oxford University researchers have found.
A study of 2,000 women with chronic HIV infection in South Africa and Botswana found evolution and medical science is tackling the disease.
The report found that patients’ natural resistance is causing the virus to become less deadly.
And it also found anti-retroviral drugs are slowing HIV’s progress to Aids, the final stage of HIV infection when the body cannot fight life-threatening infections.
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