JOHANNESBURG - With every International Aids Conference, global scientists share ideas that could help defeat the virus, that's affected millions worldwide and has been with us for over 40 years.
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This year, South African scientists are pushing ahead with shining a spotlight, on the mystery surrounding HIV infected people called "elite controllers".
ECs - as they're commonly known, don't get sick from the HI virus.
A team from the South African Medical Research Council and University of KwaZulu-Natal, is heading to the world conference in Munich, Germany, to put heads together with their international counterparts on this.
Dr Veron Ramsuran, the principal investigator of the HIV Host Genome project at UKZN, discussed this with eNCA.