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The expert spoke about the benefits of people with HIV during a pandemic

MOSCOW, April 21 – RIA News. In the early stages of HIV, the human immune system is activated by the ingestion of the human immunodeficiency virus and produces a large number of antibodies to different viruses, so we can assume that people with HIV are less likely to get coronavirus, the director of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for HIV Prevention and Prevention infections of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor Vadim Pokrovsky.–

“In the early stages of infection, the immune system is not so much reduced as activated. When the immunodeficiency virus enters the body, the human immune system begins to actively fight it, including the production of a large number of antibodies to a wide variety of viruses. It is possible that they protect against coronavirus “, – told RIA Novosti Pokrovsky.

He explained that the human immune system after being infected with HIV is in a state of activation, only after 5-10 years it is overstressed, so it can be assumed that people with HIV at the initial stage of the disease are more protected from coronavirus than healthy people.

People with HIV also have an increased number of immunoglobulins that protect against infection by a wide variety of pathogens, possibly from coronavirus, Pokrovsky said. Moreover, according to the expert, this is only a hypothesis, while data on the relationship between the incidence of HIV and coronavirus have not been identified.

But the use of antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV infection for the prevention of COVID-19 does not make sense, since their effect against the new coronavirus has not been proven, Pokrovsky emphasized.–

The World Health Organization on March 11 announced an outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 with a pandemic. According to the latest WHO data, more than 2.24 million cases of infection have been recorded in the world, more than 152 thousand people have died.– .

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