Research on HIV/AIDS
Currently, researchers at Children's Memorial are involved in many ongoing
clinical trials that focus on different treatment aspects of individuals
affected by HIV. Some of the current research going on at Children's Memorial
Hospital involves:
- Working with immune modulators that focuses on boosting the body's immune
response.
- Investigating the response to routine vaccination in patients with HIV to
achieve a better response.
- Designing potent and easily managed treatment regimens to decrease the
rate of opportunistic infections.
- Changing the factors involved in transmission of HIV between mother and
infant (vertical transmission of HIV)
- Modulating treatment regimens and diet to facilitate normal cognitive
(mental) and physiological (body weight and size) growth.
For more information regarding these particular research projects and other
ongoing projects, please contact:
Ram Yogev, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
Children's
Memorial Hospital
2300 Children's Plaza, #155
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773.880.4757
You can also refer to the following articles about additional research being
carried out at Children's Memorial:
- Evidence that circumcision could be protecting men from HIV infection, as reported by the BBC.
- A factor normally found in human placentas that blocks the AIDS virus in
laboratory studies and may naturally protect most fetuses from getting the
virus from their mothers, as
reported by Newsday.