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Advances in Pediatric HIV-1 Cure Therapies and Reservoir Assays

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VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v14122608

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cure strategies; reservoir assays; intact provirus; pediatric HIV-1 infection

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This review provides a broad overview of key interventions aimed at reducing and controlling the latent reservoir in adults with HIV-1 and pediatric populations. The focus is primarily on early treatment in combination with broadly neutralizing antibodies. The review also summarizes current assays for measuring HIV-1 reservoirs and discusses their feasibility and considerations for studies involving children.
Significant advances in the field of HIV-1 therapeutics to achieve antiretroviral treatment (ART)-free remission and cure for persons living with HIV-1 are being made with the advent of broadly neutralizing antibodies and very early ART in perinatal infection. The need for HIV-1 remission and cure arises due to the inability of ART to eradicate the major reservoir for HIV-1 in resting memory CD4+ T cells (the latent reservoir), and the strict adherence to lifelong treatment. To measure the efficacy of these cure interventions on reservoir size and to dissect reservoir dynamics, assays that are sensitive and specific to intact proviruses are critical. In this review, we provided a broad overview of some of the key interventions underway to purge the reservoir in adults living with HIV-1 and ones under study in pediatric populations to reduce and control the latent reservoir, primarily focusing on very early treatment in combination with broadly neutralizing antibodies. We also summarized assays currently in use to measure HIV-1 reservoirs and their feasibility and considerations for studies in children.

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