Why is it difficult to find a cure for AIDS?

There has been a lot of progress around the idea of finding a 'functional cure', where low levels of HIV remains in the body by using a treatment strategy that keeps the virus under ... Discovery of latent HIV residing in these cells gives us new insight into why locating viral reservoirs has been so difficult. read more

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is what we call the end stage set of syndromes caused by the virus we call HIV. AIDS was first recognized in 1981 and the HIV virus and how the virus connects to AIDS was elucidated a few years later. The stage of AIDS itself is fairly arbitrarily set though nearly always fatal. read more

Currently there is no treatment or procedure that is able to completely remove HIV from a person’s body. If taken regularly, antiretrovirals can suppress HIV in the blood to nearly undetectable levels and enable the infected person to lead a life largely unencumbered by HIV. read more