UNIVERSAL BARRIER TO PREVENT INFECTIONS FROM HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus poses a significant threat to the world's population. Current strategies to treat infectious agents have not been adequate to eradicate such deadly viral infections. HIV seeks out its host, a T-Helper cell, by utilizing glycoprotein 120 probes to engage a CD4 cell-surface receptor located on the surface of a T-Helper cell. Developing devices to offer HIV virions' probes the opportunity to engage the cell-surface receptors they are seeking offers a means of neutralizing the infectious threat of HIV. A device in the form of a solution containing a filter medium comprised of sheets or strips or spheres of lipid bilayer or virus-like structures or hypoallergenic surfaces to carry cell-surface receptors, each type of medium having affixed to its surface cell-surface receptors intended to engage and neutralize the infectious nature of HIV virions provides an effective strategy to avert AIDS.