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A surprising triple treatment completely clears hiv in newborn primates


Researchers have found a striking new way to potentially eliminate HIV soon after infection using a one-time combination of three therapies. In newborn nonhuman primates treated within three days of exposure, the regimen—standard antiretroviral drugs, broadly neutralizing antibodies, and the experimental antibody leronlimab—completely cleared the virus, even though none of the treatments could do so alone.

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