Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond.
Could immunotherapy hold the key to a cure for HIV one day?
More on that in a moment after the results of a new trial finds the virus was kept at low levels for many months in seven out of the ten people who took part.
And to help me today I have Matt Fox,
who is Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University in the US.
How are you?
Doing well.
Now HIV research is very much your area so I'm keen to ask you all about these new findings in a moment but what else do you have for us?
Yeah, we have a story on how helpful it is to have defibrillators on airplanes.
Yeah, and interestingly, it turns out they're not on every plane already,
which is interesting, I thought.
And from Nigeria,
we'll hear about the social pressures to use skin-lightening creams on very young children despite the hazards to health.
So we are starting today with HIV and the latest attempts to find a cure as an alternative to lifelong treatment.
Coinciding with World AIDS Day earlier this week,
Nature has published a study showing it may be possible to control HIV without taking the usual treatment.
So what did they do in this trial?
Yeah, so this was a proof of concept study.
So this isn't a large randomized trial,