HIV Prevention Could Need Cocktail Of Antibodies

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CommonHealth, September 22, 2017
By: Cynthia Fernandez, CommonHealth intern

It takes a cocktail of drugs to treat HIV. It could take a cocktail of antibodies to prevent HIV as well, suggests a study by Boston-based researchers published this week in Science Translational Medicine.

I spoke to researcher Dr. Dan Barouch, professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (who recently published work on a ‘mosaic’ HIV vaccine as well.) Here’s our conversation, lightly edited.

Can you sum up your study?

What we saw is that a cocktail of antibodies is required to protect monkeys… Full article