Barriers and strategies to achieve a cure for HIV.
Barriers and strategies to achieve a cure for HIV.
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10.1016/s2352-3018(18)30039-0
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2018-06
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Lewin SR
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Pitman MC;Lau JSY;McMahon JH;Lewin SR
Nine years following the report of a cure for HIV using CCR5Δ32 stem cell transplantation, there have been no further cases of confirmed HIV cure despite much scientific effort. However, significant progress has been made in understanding the biology of the latent HIV reservoir and in measuring the amount of virus that persists on antiretroviral therapy (ART) using increasingly sophisticated tools. This knowledge is being translated into an increasingly long pipeline of clinical trials seeking to reduce viral persistence in participants on suppressive ART and ultimately to allow safe cessation of ART. Here we review the main barriers to HIV cure, methods to measure HIV persistence on ART and clinical strategies that are under evaluation to cure HIV. Finally, we highlight future directions for the field.