Makerere University Researchers have started a study in which they are trying to find a permanent cure for HIV.
Based at the Makerere University Walter Reed Project, the researchers are joining other scientists based in the US to explore whether a strategy dubbed Block, Lock and Excise can help them defeat the virus that has so far had no vaccine despite over 30 years of research.
Dr. Betty Mwesigwa, the Deputy Executive Director of Makerere University Walter Reed Project told Journalists that with this strategy, they are currently in the laboratory developing chemicals or programmed epi-genetics that will help them make the virus inactive and then wipe it out of the body something they have coined into Block, lock and Excise.Dr.Betty on Virus….
Dr. Mwesigwa says first, they want to establish where exactly the virus hides in the body. This study is scheduled to last five years. END.