Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
Potential for HIV cure beyond the state of the ART?
Medicine has long been able to guarantee HIV patients an almost normal life and now it can fully cure the virus too — but the treatment is not appropriate for all, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
COMPLEX: Watercolour and ink on paper illustration of HIV maturation. After full assembled virus particles have been released from an infected target cell (usually CD4 T cells, a type of white blood cell found in the immune system), they undergo a process of maturation in order to become fully infectious viral particles.
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
THE development of antiretroviral therapies (ART) has meant that, where available, people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) now have a normal life expectancy.
Yet despite this achievement, ART is not a cure for HIV and people living with HIV need to keep taking ART for the rest of their life to prevent the development of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids).
As of this moment, two people have been — or at least appear to have been — completely cured of HIV infection, the virus was eradicated from their body and they no longer needed to take ART.
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Science has always been mixed up with money and power, but as a decorative facade for megayachts, it risks leaving reality behind altogether, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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