Eradication strategies

HIV is now known to remain latent within long-lived immune cells including memory CD4 cells and other ‘reservoirs’ including the brain, testes, lymph nodes, thymus, tonsils, spleen, and gut. Eradicating the virus from the body would require a knowledge of all of the cellular reservoirs within which HIV can 'hide', and devising means of eliminating HIV from all of them. Several strategies have been investigated.

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