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Researcher: We Can Eliminate HIV/AIDS in 40 Years

The Holy Grail of AIDS research has long been the development of a vaccine to halt the spread of the virus. But what if, using only the medicines we already have right now, we could eliminate AIDS within the next 40 years? According to Dr. Brian Williams, an AIDS researcher for the South African Center for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis, it is possible -- we just need to think bigger. On the surface, the strategy is disarmingly simple: New antiretroviral HIV/AIDS drugs aim to slow the spread of the disease by keeping the concentration levels of the virus in the body low, which also ...

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