Discovery of Powerful Human Antibodies May Lead to Future HIV Vaccine

A team of scientists from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, outside of Washington has discovered two powerful human antibodies that stop almost all known strains of HIV in the laboratory. The discovery was made possible by using antibodies taken from the blood of someone infected with HIV who has managed to control the disease. While the news is exciting, researchers caution the findings are just another development in the search for a cure. But as VOA's Melinda Smith reports, the scientific evidence could open the gates to an eventual vaccine.

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[SalomeTirza]

My question is, if someone who has allready HIV-Antibodies in their blood, why does it need other antibodies to "heal" HIV?? I thought that that's the purpuse of our immunsystem, to MAKE antibodies against a virus, and that that means our body has actually successfully won the fight against the virus?