One Cured of HIV Why Not More??????

Antiretrovirals are given to HIV patients to help them live longer, but the patient still remains HIV-positive. This is because eliminating the virus completely is something scientists have not figured out how to do yet.

Iwasa goes on to explain how HIV hides inside the DNA of healthy T cells, a place where current medicine is unable to reach it. While most T cells die shortly after becoming infected, a small portion of T cells containing the instructions for creating the virus remain dormant. This means that even if the virus is completely eliminated from the body, at any given point the instructions for creating the viruses could activate and start the process all over again.

Although finding a cure for HIV is extremely difficult, researchers are convinced that it’s not impossible. This is because it’s already been done before in 2008 on “The Berlin Patient,” Timothy Brown. To date, he remains the only person to ever have been cured of the virus, and although doctors are not sure what happened in his case, his recovery gives hope that a cure exists, we just need to find it.  
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