A CHEAP drug has been shown to flush out and kill nearly all the HIV hiding in the bodies of three people who had been infected with the virus for a long time. Despite the extremely small sample of patients, the study raises hopes of fully eradicating the virus from infected people.
The main treatment for HIV infection today is a powerful cocktail of drugs known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which keeps HIV in check. But the virus persists in a latent state in infected people taking HAART drugs. To see if they could get to these latent…
