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A new study published in eBioMedicine<\/a>, part of the medical journal The Lancet, has found that about 4% of people who had HIV in the Democratic Republic of Congo were naturally able to suppress the virus without taking medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has raised the hopes of finding better ways to control HIV, which disproportionally affects women in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lead scientist, Dr Mary Rodgers, told the BBC the group was the biggest detected in one country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said understanding how it was able to maintain low or undetectable viral loads would be crucial to controlling the epidemic, but more research was needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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