Researchers and scientists in the United States have concocted an approach to put the virus that causes AIDS into remission even though it is not a cure in essence.
Researchers are calling it a "practical cure" as the method could sometimes offer HIV patients years of existence without medications.
A test treatment regimen is being produced that could offer HIV-positive individuals something like a cure so that they wouldn't need to take antiretroviral (ARV) drugs each day to deal with their malady.
The scientists have reported that they've accomplished remission in primates infected with SIV, a monkey variant of HIV, by utilizing a blend of an immunization and a medication.
“This is where we’re beginning to edge into that space. And we’re basically developing the rationale that we can actually envision a day that that will be what happens — that someone would not have to take drugs every day because those things that we could do would buy them a lot of time where they wouldn’t have to take drugs. That’s really the story,” said Nelson Michael, who directs the HIV research program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland.