UCSF researchers say they have found a treatment for HIV that shows potential as a long-term solution for the chronic disease that up until this point has been held at bay in patients through the use of a lifetime regimen of antiviral medications.

Though limited to 10 patients with HIV, researchers say they believe the results — published Monday, on World AIDS Day — show a new treatment approach that could prove effective at staving off the virus.

“The study was designed to look at a combination of multiple different immunotherapies together,” said Dr. Rachel Rutishauser, an associate professor with UCSF’s Division of Experimental Medicine and the co-senior author of the paper published on Monday in Nature.

“It was incredibly complex to bring together all of these different interventi

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