How Close Are We to Curing HIV/AIDS?

Published on November 29, 2017
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Current drug therapies mean it’s possible to live a normal life span with HIV, but that’s expensive and not a long term solution. What we really need is an HIV vaccine and a cure. So, how close are we?

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