The quest to cure HIV

Illustration depicting the quest to cure HIV

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 Although HIV–Aids can now be managed quite well with antiretroviral drugs, there is still no cure. Anthony King talks to the scientists trying to find one 

Taking a complicated regime of antiretroviral drugs is difficult to manage for patients, not to mention expensive. So scientists are still working on a cure, and many methods involve gene editing, Crispr or CAR-T cells.