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The possibility of a cure for AIDS within the next ten years

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It is perfeclty possible, but not very likely. Not only is it extremely difficult to combat viruses (there is no known cure today for ANY virus, only preventions and control methods), but AIDS is especially difficult, as it works by attaching itself to some of our most important white blood cells. Any cure would have to attack the AIDS virus, and all its adapted forms, while not hurting our white blood cells, a truly difficult task.

However, medical technology is coming along rapidly, and it is perfectly possible ways will be found to do this. Already there are people who get HIV who have something about their blood that it NEVER turns into AIDS. Study of these people could very well not lead to a cure, but at the very least a prevention, so that in the future, at the very least, people can get HIV but full-blown AIDS becomes a thing of the past. AIDS kills, HIV doesn't (though it can spread).

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