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S03 E13: World AIDS Day special

EMJ GOLD: Pharma news, views and analysis

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HIV - Is There a Cure?

HIV is a challenging disease to find a cure for obviously research has been underway for a very long time. One of the main challenges is because the virus hides away in cells that are asleep so latent CD4 cells. As long as those cells are dormant effectively there's no way for the virus to come out and be attacked by anti-retrovirals. Until a way is found for latent virus to be woken up and to be forced out of the cell a cure is not possible. But one question that often is asked is how long will it be? And I think that it's impossible to predict exactly how long except to say that we are getting ever closer.

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