Despite more than 35 years of research, scientists have yet to find a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV): the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been a major breakthrough that does help suppress the virus, but it’s not a cure. And while there have been a few well-publicized cases in which HIV was said to have been cured-including that of Timothy Brown, aka the Berlin Patient-there has yet to be an approach that can consistently and safely eradicate HIV on an individual basis, much less a global scale. Even so, progress is being made.
Challenges
There are several reasons why finding a cure for HIV/AIDS has been such a long road of challenge after challenge. HIV is such a complex, multifaceted, ever-changing virus that it makes it difficult to keep up with.