Scientists Achieve 'Functional Cure' for HIV in Monkey Model

U.S. scientists have devised a way to put the virus that causes AIDS into remission. It's not a cure per se, but could someday offer HIV patients years of life without drugs.   Scientists are calling it a "functional cure." An experimental treatment regimen is being developed that could offer HIV-positive people something similar to a cure, so they wouldn't have to take antiretroviral drugs every day to manage their disease. In the journal Nature, scientists are...

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