<p>A group of people with AIDS took part in a clinical trial and after 24 weeks, the majority had shown a "significant" decrease in their viral load, the Journal of Infectious Diseases reports.<br />"This decrease was very significant in some of them but in no case did the virus become undetectable," the hospital statement said, according to the Telegraph.<br /><br />"However, this is a very important improvement with respect to previous initiatives where with a similar vaccine, there was a modest response in 30 percent of the treated patients.<br />"No therapeutic vaccine has achieved up to now the same level of response as in this study," the statement added.<br /><br />The vaccine was made from each person’s own dendritic cells, a special type of cell that is a key regulator of the immune system.The cells were extracted and "re-educated" to attack the virus using samples of HIV also taken from individual patients. The adjusted cells were then injected back into them in three stages, two weeks apart.<br /><br />An estimated 33.3 million people worldwide have the HIV virus that causes AIDS, according to the United Nations Aids agency UNAIDS.</p>
<p>A group of people with AIDS took part in a clinical trial and after 24 weeks, the majority had shown a "significant" decrease in their viral load, the Journal of Infectious Diseases reports.<br />"This decrease was very significant in some of them but in no case did the virus become undetectable," the hospital statement said, according to the Telegraph.<br /><br />"However, this is a very important improvement with respect to previous initiatives where with a similar vaccine, there was a modest response in 30 percent of the treated patients.<br />"No therapeutic vaccine has achieved up to now the same level of response as in this study," the statement added.<br /><br />The vaccine was made from each person’s own dendritic cells, a special type of cell that is a key regulator of the immune system.The cells were extracted and "re-educated" to attack the virus using samples of HIV also taken from individual patients. The adjusted cells were then injected back into them in three stages, two weeks apart.<br /><br />An estimated 33.3 million people worldwide have the HIV virus that causes AIDS, according to the United Nations Aids agency UNAIDS.</p>