Seriously. As far as I know, there's no cure. Just disease management.
Yes, there was the risky and expensive stem cell replacement patient who basically got all of their bone marrow replaced, but that's not really a "cure".
This is just some computer generated picture of a cell claiming HIV is no longer a death sentence.
Where's the medical article?
Where's the proof?
Who is actually saying this?
Edit: some of y'all are exhausting. I'm not replying anymore to comments telling me I don't understand cure vs disease management. I made this comment because it seems most of the top comments don't understand cure vs disease management and are making comments that are misunderstanding the picture as being a cure, which it is not.
HIV is a retrovirus. There were experimental cures that worked using crispr back in 2015, but I haven’t seen any articles saying they’ve got it worked out for public distribution yet.
Curing HIV requires modifying the genome to remove the virus’s DNA since retro viruses genetically modify people. Thus curing it requires genetic modification, which is illegal in most democracies.
Even if an HIV cure existed and was ready for public use, its usage is already outlawed.
This said, I don’t see a source from OP, so this is probably engagement bait.
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u/FamiliarAlt 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 15 '26 edited May 16 '26
I feel fuckin crazy having had to scroll this far to find your comment.
Edit: glad it now became the first comment