HIV Biologic Drug Reduces Viral Load While Boosting Immunity

In the U.S. alone, there are over one million individuals living with HIV and 1 in 7 of them don’t know they are infected. As antimicrobial resistance is a growing global public health threat, researchers are actively taking steps to minimize the emergence and spread of HIV drug resistance—as well as treating current HIV therapy-resistant patients. Now, a new collaborative study led by investigators at the Yale School of Medicine describes how the biologic drug ibalizumab, a humanize