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Unlocking the Mysteries of AIDS

In the battle to end the AIDS epidemic, scientists are grappling with a central mystery: What mechanisms allow the HIV virus to stay hidden inside the body, even in the face of powerful antiretroviral medications?

Antiretroviral drugs are effective at suppressing HIV, but they are unable to completely eradicate it. Reservoirs of the virus remain hidden and dormant inside cells, even in patients on effective medication.

Unlocking the mystery of these reservoirs has become an important fight in the battle against AIDS.

The California HIV/AIDS Research Program, funds some of the most pioneering work in this area. It supports novel, groundbreaking studies providing seed funding to novel approaches aimed at unraveling the biological mystery of how HIV hides and persists. For example, could a single gene hold the key to eradicating HIV from the human body?

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