CURE FOR HIV

rainbowbrite85 · Jul 9, 2010

I highly doubt there is a cure for HIV. And if there was, I'm sure it would be broadcast to the public at once rather than just floated around as a rumor.

Where did you hear this at? A news source?

marty6001, EdD, EMT-P, APRN · Jul 9, 2010

There is no cure, however, the newer combination medications have stopped the disease HIV from worsening into AIDS in most cases, allowing people to live a healthy, active life.

OpenHeartLPN · Jul 9, 2010

I thought that since HIV was a virus, there is no real cure. I'm sure that they could create a vaccine eventually, as well as something to control the diseases progression.

God Willing I am Wrong

healthstar, BSN, RN · Jul 9, 2010

I know I was shocked too when I heard it. Hey, everything has been invented by humans so it is also possible to have cures for different diseases...I hope soon :)

Lovelymo79 · Jul 9, 2010

Not a cure, but they have discovered an antibody that destroys HIV strains. It could potentially help find a vaccine:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-health-hiv-antibody-07082010,0,6105219.story

TxGrad2009 · Jul 9, 2010

"Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus."

BBC NEWS | Health | Bone marrow 'cures HIV patient'

MariahCareyizQUEEN! · Jul 9, 2010

I say dont feed me BS especially after majority medications never make it out of the clinical laboratory trial period.

MariahCareyizQUEEN! · Jul 9, 2010

Even if they did come up with a vaccination...like who would want to be injected with "weak" HIV body strains? :eek:

brielle776 · Jul 9, 2010

I highly doubt that if there were a cure found for HIV that it would be weakened strain of it. HIV is considered untreatable because it's a "complex virus" that contains reverse transcriptase which makes DNA from RNA...HIV is an RNA virus but it replicates DNA from RNA to infect our cells. So there really would be no use in injecting anyone with a weak strain of HIV it wouldn't help becuase anti-bodies don't kill HIV, and our bodies won't form anti-bodies against it. There are actually some people who are considered immune to it because where the HIV virus binds to our cells there are two receptors it binds to one is CD4 and the other is a coreceptor which is called CCR5, which allows the virus to penetrate into our cell, if a person is missing a CCR5 coreceptor then they are considered "immune" to the HIV virus because it cannot penetrate into the cell. So, these people who lack the coreceptor can never really be infected but they can still be a carrier of HIV, so they can pass it on to other people. In other words HIV would just float around in their bodies and I guess be considered "dormant" and it would never effect them.

Maybe a cure for HIV lies in figuring out how to inhibit reverse transcriptase...or figuring out how to inhibit the coreceptor so HIV can't infect our cells, but I think that is very far into the future. I'm not a nurse, I just got accepted into the nursing program at my school for this fall and I'm very excited. I just really loved microbiology and had a really awesome teacher, and I thought HIV was a interesting topic.

allnurses Guide · Jul 9, 2010

"In the new study, researchers engineered human stem cells -- cells that create other cells -- to lock a kind of "door" that allows HIV to enter."

Scientists Make Immune Cells in Mice That Fight Off HIV - Yahoo! News

This study was just published this month.

healthstar, BSN, RN · Jul 9, 2010

"Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus."
BBC NEWS | Health | Bone marrow 'cures HIV patient'

I heard this. It is interesting.