Potential Cure For HIV?

Nobel Prize if it pans out.

There have been a few other cases before of people being "cured" of HIV. However, for some, it started being detectable again a few years later. I am hopeful that a functional cure will be available within the next decade or so. They just recently found a cure for Hep C that works on almost 100% of patients.

Lots of smart people have been putting lots of hard work into this. It would be great to see it pay off. HIV has given us lots of surprises and has challenged our understanding before. The upside there is it teaches us a lot.

Magic JOHNSON

Nina, the difference would be that lots of infected people show no detectable virus with current treatment but it will pop up if they don't monitor their blood and continue treatment, as explained by the dormant T cells This new therapy would be an actual cure, where the body is 100% free of the virus, because the dormant cells are also treated to eliminate the virus.

The HBO series "Vice" did a very comprehensive report a few months ago called "Countdown to Zero" - in that report they also reported on a U.S. guy that was HIV+ and where the virus was not detectable - the report also talked about a medicine called "Truvada" which supposedly made some people HIV resistant - they also talked about a small minority of folks that supposedly have some kinda gene mutation which makes them immune to the HIV virus - it was a very interesting report

Its great news and in a way wouldn't that be egg on the face for the California prop 60 backers? Guilt free bbfs with sex workers?

Again, it will still be time before a treatment is readily available and affordable to all that need it. Meanwhile, the Zika virus is known to be sexually transmittable as well as being passed by blood transfusions and of course, Mosquitoes. So even with a cure on the horizon lets not be dancing in the end zone yet!

Zika AFAIK cannot compare to HIV, many people that get Zika don't have any symptoms and I think the virus is gone in a few days, snd some people just get flu-like symptoms for a few dags - AFAIK the biggest Zika danger is to pregnant women possibly causing severe birth defect - there will always be other STDs but a HIV cure would be HUGE

One trouble with coming up with a reliable vaccine or cure is that the little bastards mutate very quickly, and within a generation or two the vaccine or "cure" will no longer be effective. The surest cure is not to catch it!

^So eradicate it like with smallpox, and wipe it off the planet. It is no longer a threat (of course the virus will be saved, like how the US and Russia and whoever else by now have smallpox viruses locked away).

Most interesting!

I hate to say this, but in a William Gibson novel HIV is cured. Someone turned out to be infected with a benign strain. Turns out that having that wipes out the harmful strains. So from him they developed a vaccination and cure.

But, because of the implication that someone could be vaccinated and cured simply by having sex with this gay man, the Christian Right assassinated him. So he became known as the "Aids Saint".

SJG

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HIV mutates quickly and often takes ten years to appear in the host. It's still one of the deadliest viruses to humans. Prevention is the best cure. It might be the only cure.