Is there a cure for HIV?

PHOTO: This 2012 colorized electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a single human immunodeficiency virus, center, as it was budding from a human immune cell, which the virus had infected, and within which the HIV virus had been replicated. According to a report published Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022 in the journal Science, researchers have found a previously unrecognized variant of HIV that’s more virulent than usual and quietly circulated in the Netherlands for the past few decades. (NIAID via AP)

by: Curtis Koch

Posted: Feb 16, 2022 / 06:11 PM CST

Updated: Feb 17, 2022 / 02:26 PM CST

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A potential breakthrough treatment makes a woman the third person to be cured of HIV. Dr. Richard D’Aquila, professor of infectious diseases and Associate Vice President of Research at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, joined Chicago’s Afternoon News with Anna Davlantes. Dr. D’Aquila discusses the stem cell transplant treatment and what it means for other patients who have HIV.