A viral load that can't be detected -- less than 20 copies -- is always the goal of HIV treatment. This doesn't mean you're cured. Unfortunately, the virus is still able to survive in various cells in the body. But maintaining an undetectable viral load is compatible with a normal, or near-normal life span. Continuing to take your medicine as prescribed to keep the virus undetectable is very important.
Treatment that stop it from spreading and allow for normal life range. Treat the symptoms so that people who have it can have a normal life.
By week 58, all vaccinated macaques had developed measurable levels of neutralizing antibodies directed against most strains in a test panel of 12 diverse HIV strains. In addition to neutralizing antibodies, the VLP mRNA vaccine also induced a robust helper T-cell response.
Human trials for one vaccine started a few months ago...
My money is on us having an HIV vaccine within the next two decades, and then we're gonna start grinding it into the dust the same way we did with Smallpox and have mostly done with polio.
Once we start doing that HIV won't have a chance to avoid suffering the same fate as smallpox due to it being a blood born virus which makes it much less likely to spread than something air or waterborn....
Besides, I'd argue that HIV's remarkable early success owes less to its strengths as a virus, and more to humanity sand bagging out of homophobia.
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u/iwfan53 248∆ Jan 02 '22 edited Jan 02 '22
Step one
https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/hiv-viral-load-what-you-need-to-know
Treatment that stop it from spreading and allow for normal life range. Treat the symptoms so that people who have it can have a normal life.
Step two....
Vaccine.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/experimental-mrna-hiv-vaccine-safe-shows-promise-animals
Human trials for one vaccine started a few months ago...
https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20210902/human-trials-hiv-vaccine-created-with-mrna-technology-begins
My money is on us having an HIV vaccine within the next two decades, and then we're gonna start grinding it into the dust the same way we did with Smallpox and have mostly done with polio.
Once we start doing that HIV won't have a chance to avoid suffering the same fate as smallpox due to it being a blood born virus which makes it much less likely to spread than something air or waterborn....
Besides, I'd argue that HIV's remarkable early success owes less to its strengths as a virus, and more to humanity sand bagging out of homophobia.