SA moves closer to finding AIDS cure

"This is a great day in [South Africa]. Our researchers and scientists have done us proud once again."A team of scientists at the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in SA discovered that the immune systems of two women living with HIV were able to produce antibodies capable of neutralising and killing 88 percent of the virus.

"Our scientists have also in the past helped us understand the mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Their groundbreaking work brings us closer to developing an HIV vaccine," Motsoaledi said.The SA government was a co-funder of the study. Other funders included the US National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.