July 2000 Cover
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Researchers have found that HIV-positive teenagers most likely have the best chance of using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to keep HIV at undetectable levels. Adolescents' immune systems send out
high levels of "killer" T cells to fight HIV, the study of 270 teens with and without HIV found.
Researchers noted that teens often still have a functioning thymus, a gland which is believed to have no function for adults but, when functioning, produces T lymphocytes that can help fight
infection. According to the report, HIV-positive teens also seem to benefit from their abundance of naive T cells.
Editor's Note: from Reuters Health Info Services
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