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We have drugs to manage HIV. So why are we spending millions looking for cures?

  • Written by Bridget Haire, Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
We have drugs to manage HIV. So why are we spending millions looking for cures?Alim Yakubov/Shutterstock

Over the past three decades there have been amazing advances in treating and preventing HIV.

It’s now a manageable infection. A person with HIV who takes HIV medicine consistently, before their immune system declines, can expect to live almost as long as someone without HIV.

The same drugs prevent transmission of the...

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