There Is No Cure for HIV—But Scientists May Be Getting Closer

3/10/18
 
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from TIME Magazine,
3/8/18:

Cure isn’t a word normally used in the context of AIDS. For most of the 35 years since HIV, the virus responsible for the disease, was first identified, doctors have viewed the notion of a cure as more fantasy than fact.

Yet for the first time in the HIV epidemic that currently affects nearly 37 million people worldwide, some experts are starting to aim for a cure–cautiously–as they fashion the next generation of HIV treatments.

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