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+title: A cure for HIV
+kind: problem
+status: partial
+year: 1983
+statement: Can HIV infection be cured, not just controlled?
+space: infectious-disease
+---
+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.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: HIV/AIDS research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_research)
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+[[Space:infectious-disease|Infectious disease]] · [[Continent:medicine|Medicine]]
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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.