# A cure for HIV

- kind: problem
- status: partial
- year: 1983

**Statement.** Can HIV infection be cured, not just controlled?

Antiretroviral therapy turned HIV into a manageable condition, and a few people have been cured through stem cell transplants from donors with the CCR5-delta32 mutation, starting with Timothy Ray Brown in 2008. Transplants are far too dangerous to scale. The latent reservoir of infected cells is the obstacle to a general cure.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: HIV/AIDS research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_research)

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