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As reported in The Times of Israel, a groundbreaking study out of Israel and Ethiopia led by Prof. Hila Elinav, head of the Hadassah AIDS Center at the Hadassah Medical Organization, and her husband, Prof. Eran Elinav, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, reveals that bacteria in the gut can actively boost the immune defenses in people living with early stages of HIV. The findings lay the groundwork for new medical therapies targeting the body’s bacterial ecosystem.
The research examined the composition of the gut microbiome in the stool of about 70 people living with HIV in Israel and a similar number in Ethiopia, collecting samples from each at several time points over the course of the viral infection and comparing them to those of uninfected people from the same geographical area.
The study was published in the leading scientific journal Nature Microbiology even after major setbacks; civil war in Ethiopia and Iranian missile strikes in Israel hindered research progress.
Read the full article in The Times of Israel.
