Will we know if HIV is curable by 2020?

amfAR's “Countdown to a Cure for AIDS” is a research initiative aimed at finding a broadly applicable cure for HIV by 2020. “Countdown to a Cure” is designed to .... Once these tools have been developed and validated, we will be able to determine whether or not a person is cured. read more

We won't have a cure by 2020, not in the sense that we'll have a therapy that will effectively eliminate HIV from the body without the possibility of viral rebound. That's way too short a window. Researchers say they already know that such a thing is possible, however. They say we will certainly have a cure one day. It's just hard and complicated. read more

HIV research has come a long way since the disease was discovered in the 1980's. Antiretroviral therapy changed the lives of millions, but the goal now is to find an HIV cure before 2020. We've scanned the biotech industry to identify the most promising developments towards finding the cure. read more