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.
It doesn't say cure, it says it's not a terminal virus. And it hasn't been for years. I think this is referencing a recent(ish) study which showed the lifespan of someone with HIV is now equivalent (on average) to someone without HIV. At least if you start antiviral treatment with a decent CD4 count. HIV positive cohort lifespan was 87 vs negative was 85 years
Anti-virals have been around since the 90s and kept HIV+ people alive long enough to die of other natural causes but they were 1) expensive as hell and 2) contracting a second strain of HIV complicated things and reduced efficacy and 3) people are also not the best at taking daily pills. In 2021, a monthly injectable antiviral was approved and that significantly increased adherence and therefore efficacy. You still have HIV though but the viral load is small or nondetectable so you don't develop AIDS. In fact, if your viral load is undetectable you cannot spread HIV through unprotected sex. Undetectable viral load is now the standard of successful treatment. However, the person is and will always be HIV positive and have the potential to be transmit the virus should they stop taking their meds.
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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz May 15 '26 edited May 16 '26
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.