Under Passive Immune Therapy, or PIT, pioneered at the University of Cambridge, patients receive a monthly transfusion of half a liter of plasma taken from healthy HIV-positive individuals. The blood has the red and white cells removed and is free of HIV but has high levels of neutralizing antibodies that kill the virus.
Researchers studied the effects of PIT on 220 AIDS patients over three years. It found that in the first 12 months the mortality rate was greatly reduced in the group who received the plasma transfusion while those in the control group, where no treatment was given, had a death rate of five times higher.
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