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Bananas may hold the key to a new powerful AIDS treatment.

Scientists in the US have found that a lectin in bananas, called banlec, is as potent as two currently available anti-HIV drugs.

University of Michigan researchers believe that therapies based on banlec could have the potential to save millions of lives.

They discovered that the lectin in bananas can inhibit HIV infection by blocking its entry into the body.

"The problem with some HIV drugs is that the virus can mutate and become resistant, but that's much harder to do in the presence of lectins," said Michael Swanson, one of the authors of the study.

"Lectins can bind to the sugars found on the different spots on the HIV-1 envelope, and presumably it will take multiple mutations for the virus to get around them."

The researchers found that banlec was as effective in laboratory tests as to anti-HIV drugs in use, T-20 and Maraviroc.

New ways of stopping the virus are needed say the authors as the rate of new infections of HIV is outpacing the rate of new individuals getting treatment by 2.5 to 1.

"HIV is still rampant in the US and the explosion in poorer countries continues to be a bad problem because of tremendous human suffering and the cost of treating it," says study senior author Professor David Marvovitz from the University of Michigan.

The research appeared in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In 2008 there was an estimated 17,444 people living with AIDS in Australia.