HIV cure research: advances and prospects.

Caroline P Passaes (1, 2) , Asier Sáez-Cirión (2)

1 IMETI - Institut des Maladies Emergentes et des Thérapies Innovantes
2 Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales

Thirty years after the identification of HIV, a cure for HIV infection is still to be achieved. Advances of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) in recent years have transformed HIV infection into a chronic disease when treatment is available. However, in spite of the favorable outcomes provided by the newer therapies, cART is not curative and patients are at risk of developing HIV-associated disorders. Moreover, universal access to antiretroviral treatment is restricted by financial obstacles. This review discusses the most recent strategies that have been developed in the search for an HIV cure and to improve life quality of people living with HIV.

Keywords: Control of infection; Eradication; HIV cure; HIV reservoirs; Reactivation of latent virus; Remission of HIV infection; Repression of provirus

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Immunology

Caroline P Passaes, Asier Sáez-Cirión. HIV cure research: advances and prospects.. Virology, 2014, 454-455, pp.340-52. ⟨10.1016/j.virol.2014.02.021⟩. ⟨pasteur-01420527⟩