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Enzolytics Recognizes World AIDS Day and Highlights the Company's Focus on Producing Effective Therapies for Treating HIV
Enzolytics Recognizes World AIDS Day and Highlights the Company's Focus on Producing Effective Therapies for Treating HIV.
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[{"type":"text","content":"COLLEGE STATION, TX / ACCESSWIRE / December 1, 2022 / Enzolytics, Inc. (OTC PINK:ENZC) (https://enzolytics.com/).World AIDS Day has been recognized on this day since 1988. It is an important day for the world to reflect on those who have been lost in the HIV pandemic and recommit to the challenge necessary to address this deadly disease.But why has the world failed to conquer HIV?Even though there are treatments for those with HIV - antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) -, the treatments do not cure and require lifelong use - which over a lifetime cause severe side effects including bone loss, heart disease, diabetes, lactic acidosis, kidney, liver, or pancreas damage, among others.Additionally, ARV treatments are extremely expensive. New ARV drugs such as Biktarvy by Gilead can costs up to $75K per year. Cabenuva by VIIV Healthcare costs $48K a year. As a result, of the 38.4 Million people in the world who have HIV, only 69% have access to any available treatment, leaving 31% with no treatment. Of children in the world with HIV, only 50% have access to treatment, leaving 50% with no treatment.During the pandemic, over 40 Million have died from the virus. In 2021, 860,000 died from HIV, over 2,000 each day. Each day in 2021, approximately 850 children became infected with HIV and approximately 301 children died from AIDS-related causes.In 2021, 301 children died each day from HIV. More than the number of children who succumb to cancer.Attempts to produce monoclonal antibodies to successfully treat HIV have not succeeded. The anti-HIV monoclonal antibodies VRC01 and VRC02, produced by the NIH in conjunction with Vaccine Research Center, failed - due to virus mutation - namely "virus escape". https://www.jci.org/articles/view/134395. Many other attempts have also not been successful in providing effective treatment at a reasonable cost.On this World AIDS Day, Enzolytics wishes to call attention to the continued need for more effective, and affordable treatments for HIV, including successful treatments for the growing number of individuals living longer with HIV. 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 cond...