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If you doctors find a cure for hiv ... will it also cure the damage immune cells ( well i don't think soo )?
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No: And that wouldn't be necessary - you would regenerate those cells like normal. The reason it doesn't work in hiv+ patients who don't take or respond to anti-retrovirals is that the virus is always replicating and infecting newly generated t cells.
Answered 10/16/2012
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