• Question: how long do you think it will be before there will be a drug to help stop h.i.v

    Asked by hippy123 to Mark on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Mark Travis answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      There are a lot of drugs available at the moment that do a good job of dealing with HIV and helping people with HIV live a lot longer. These are all anti-retroviral drugs (HIV is a retrovirus) and different kinds are often taken in combination to attack the virus in different ways.
      But, the ultimate breakthrough will be to get a vaccine that protects people from HIV infection in the first place. There are no such vaccines available at the moment, but people are working very hard to develop one. I really can’t say exactly when a good vaccine will developed, but hopefully sometime in the not so distant future there will be some big breakthroughs.

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