Antibody injections might protect newborns against HIV

Chitra Pathak and Julie Clayton
28 May 2004
Source: SciDev.Net

A new approach to protecting newborn babies against HIV infection could
soon enter clinical trials in South Africa. The treatment, which involves
injecting babies with laboratory-made antibodies against the virus, instead
of giving protective drugs to both a woman and her child, might enable
women with HIV to continue breastfeeding without transmitting the virus to
their baby.

The trial involves injecting babies with antibodies that are designed to
stick to the virus and thus stop it from entering a person's white blood
cells. The idea is that antibodies would work like a vaccine and protect
the baby against the virus — even if it was later exposed to HIV through
its mother's breast milk.

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