UNBELIEVABLE: Scientists believe that there will be a CURE for HIV!
Researchers and scientists are convinced that the world will soon have a cure for HIV. However, there are various pathways for finding a cure.
So let us begin first by establishing the fact that there is no cure or vaccine for completely eradicating HIV. However, there is some good news. Researchers and scientists have recently made unimaginable headway using various avenues, which include gene therapy.
Discovered more than forty years ago, HIV remained incurable for decades; however, with the development of gene therapy and a vaccine, the medical community is convinced that the life-threatening disease will soon be completely curable.
An article published on INSTI mentions the following:
“A functional cure can reduce HIV in the body to levels that it can’t be detected or make someone sick, but it does not completely get rid of the virus from a body. While some may consider the current treatments (ART, or antiretroviral treatment) as a functional cure, ideally, a functional cure would suppress the virus without the need to take drugs for the rest of an infected person’s life.”
A sterilizing cure has the potential to eradicate HIV from the body completely. This cure can potentially kill the virus that keeps it safe in the hidden reservoirs of the body.
The reason the scientific community is convinced that there will soon be a cure is due to the fact that there have already been two cases where patients infected by the deadly virus were completely cured.
The INSTI article mentions:
“The first in was Timothy Brown (also known as the Berlin Patient), who received chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant as part of his leukemia treatment in 2007. The transplant was from a donor who had a natural resistance to HIV, and following Brown’s transplant, he appeared to be free of HIV.
Following this, doctors replicated this result on another patient, Adam Castillejo, or the London Patient, where following his transplant, became HIV-free. As of 2020, 30 months after stopping treatment, Adam was still HIV-free.”
Does that mean there already is a cure for HIV? While it is true that the FDA has approved CRISPR gene editing for clinical trials, a comprehensive treatment for the disease will take some more time to see the light of day.
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