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What is being done to find a cure for HIV?
Experimental treatments in development include therapeutic vaccines, genetically engineered immune cells that are resistant to HIV infection, drugs that reactivate latent HIV to make the virus visible to the immune system, cure-inducing immunotherapies, and interventions to permanently silence HIV in infected cells.
Why is it so difficult to find a cure for HIV?
The mechanism of the virus in the body makes it difficult to cure because HIV invades and then commandeers the T cells responsible for defeating it. This reduces the number of functional T cells and ruptures their cellular membrane in the process.
Is there any permanent cure for HIV?
There is no cure for HIV, although antiretroviral treatment can control the virus, meaning that people with HIV can live long and healthy lives. Most research is looking for a functional cure where HIV is permanently reduced to undetectable and harmless levels in the body, but some residual virus may remain.
How can you kill HIV?
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and on its own it does not kill you. The virus can survive and grow only by infecting, and destroying, the immune system. This continual assault on the immune system makes it weaker and weaker until it is no longer able to fight off infections.
What can cure or flush out the HIV virus?
Diagnosis. HIV can be diagnosed through blood or saliva testing.
What will it take to cure HIV?
HIV treatment involves taking medicines that slow the progression of the virus in your body. HIV is a type of virus called a retrovirus, and the combination of drugs used to treat it is called antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART is recommended for all people living with HIV, regardless of how long they’ve had the virus or how healthy they are.
Will there be cure for HIV AIDS soon?
There is no cure for HIV , although antiretroviral treatment can control the virus, meaning that people with HIV can live long and healthy lives. Most research is looking for a functional cure where HIV is permanently reduced to undetectable and harmless levels in the body, but some residual virus may remain.