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With the consensus that the berlin patient is cured of hiv, and spanish doctors claim of a cure using umbilical cord blood transplant with ccr5 delta32 mutation, how close are we to an hiv cure?
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Closer! : We are closer to a cure for HIV, but it won't be an umbilical cord transplant. That's just not possible in everyone with the disease. However, we are gaining new insights all the time and drug therapy has turned HIV into a chronic lifelong disease for people with access to the medications.
Answered 12/9/2014
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A long time: even if this is the answer it would take 5-10 years to design a medication, test it, and bring to market
Answered 12/23/2014
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