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Enzolytics Announces Progress As It Recognizes World AIDS Day
Enzolytics Announces Progress As It Recognizes World AIDS Day.
About this update from Enzolytics Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"COLLEGE STATION, TX / ACCESSWIRE / December 2, 2021 / Enzolytics wishes to recognize and acknowledge World AIDS Day - a day to call attention to the continued need for a more effective treatment for HIV, including successful treatments for the growing number of individuals living longer with HIV.Approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. and 37.7 million people in the world have HIV, yet the only treatment available is antiretrovirals (ARVs), which do not cure, are tremendously expensive, are only available to 46% of those infected and have significant long-term side effects. Additionally, those with HIV are living longer than in earlier years of the pandemic. Because almost ½ of those with HIV are now 50 or older and approximately 1 in 6 new diagnoses of HIV occur in this age group, people aging with HIV can face treatment-related challenges, such as drug interactions between HIV medicines and medicines used for other conditions. Because older individuals are more likely not to be diagnosed with HIV, a delayed diagnosis means treatment is also delayed, resulting in HIV potentially causing more damage to the immune system. Additionally, data suggest that untreated HIV is resulting in the development of SARS-CoV-2 variants. In this regard, the Company's technology remains focused on both HIV and SARS-CoV-2.The Company's technologies focus on a definitive therapy for treating HIV compared to the current treatment using ARVs. Specifically, the Company is advancing two platforms, one being a clinically tested, patented, antiviral therapeutic, known as ITV-1, that has shown significant effectiveness in treating patients with HIV/AIDS. This therapeutic is complementary to the Company's development of fully human monoclonal antibodies that target and neutralize the virus. Experts in the field have consistently acknowledged that a cure for HIV will require the administration of "multiple, broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies." Just as multiple anti-CoronaVirus monoclonal antibodies are now widely recognized as successful in treating those with COVID-19, the same will be true for anti-HIV monoclonal antibodies. But to be successful, such antibodies must be "broadly neutralizing" - that is, they must target conserved, immutable sites not subject to mutant strains of the HIV virus. This is exactly the focus...