With newly discovered difficulties in measuring the HIV reservoir, the main barrier to a cure, the only true test of cure is to stop ART and see whether the virus becomes detectable. However, it is possible that this treatment interruption may be associated with certain risks for patients. ...
“You would still be infected with HIV, it’s not a cure for the virus. But the virus would stay latent, it wouldn’t wake up, so it wouldn’t develop into AIDS. With a treatment like this, you would maintain a healthy immune system.” The successful development of this type of one...
JP: HIV is difficult to cure because one part of the virus' life cycle is to integrate its own DNA into the human DNA of the cell it is infecting. These cells are very long-lived and can lie dormant for long periods of time. As a result, the HIV DNA inside them also lies dormant...
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Since the virus was first discovered in the 1980s, more than75 millionpeople worldwide have been infected with HIV. Today, almost 37 million people live with HIV. Of these, about1.1 millionlive in the U.S. Infection with HIV almost always led to AIDS...
A new way to get rid of HIV from the body could one day be turned into a cure for infection by this virus, although it hasn’t yet been shown to work in people. The strategy uses a relatively recent genetic technique called CRISPR, which can make cuts in DNA to introduce errors into...
The HIV virus hides out in reservoir cells, making it difficult for the immune system to detect and eliminate completely, Wu explains. Patients therefore need ART for the rest of their life to inhibit HIV release from reservoir cells. Rev is a viral protein that is needed for HIV replication...
Researchers who eliminated HIV from mice say their results are an important advance in efforts to develop a cure for HIV infection in people. This is the first time that the AIDS-causing virus has been eradicated from the genomes of living animals, according to the authors of the study. "...
For decades, public health officials have puzzled over a surprising fact about HIV: Only about 10-20 percent of infants who are breastfed by infected mothers catch the virus. Tests show, though, that HIV is indeed present in breast milk, so these children are exposed to the virus multiple ...
The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS is the most significant challenge of our time. The ongoing conversation between religion and science comes to a critical juncture in this pandemic. The global community has not yet found a vaccine or cure for this virulent virus, which will likely claim five ...
of AIDS. For most of the 35 years since HIV, the virus responsible for the disease, was first identified, doctors have viewed the notion of a cure as more than fact. That's because HIV is a virus unlike any other. It disables the very immune cells that are to destroy it, carrying ...