{"id":376448,"date":"2026-04-12T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:43:14","slug":"researchers-demonstrate-drugs-effectiveness-in-drawing-out-dormant-hiv-from-immune-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376448\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers demonstrate drug\u2019s effectiveness in drawing out dormant HIV from immune cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNC School of Medicine news release<\/p>\n<p>A new study has found that a drug named citarinostat is effective at disrupting latent HIV reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>Disruption is the first step required for the so-called \u2018kick and kill\u2019 approach aimed at the eradication of latent HIV reservoirs. The study highlights a promising class of drugs that can agitate and force HIV-infected immune cells to come out of latency and be attacked by the immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news release <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2026\/04\/unc-researchers-demonstrate-drugs-effectiveness-in-drawing-out-dormant-hiv-from-immune-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2026\/04\/unc-researchers-demonstrate-drugs-effectiveness-in-drawing-out-dormant-hiv-from-immune-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UNC School of Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNC School of Medicine news release A new study has found that a drug named citarinostat is effective&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-376448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}