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It is worth to remember that there is a way to completely cure HIV, but it is very dangerous, requires a very specific bone marrow match, and does not erradicate all subtypes of the virus. Still, it is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematopoietic_stem_cell_transp...

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Rather than thinking of this as a way to cure HIV, I think of it as a demonstration that if someone has a life-threatening blood cancer – something so acutely lethal that you will take the risk of destroying their entire bone marrow – then if you can find matched but CCR5-deficient donors, you can also potentially cure their HIV.

> It is worth to remember that there is a way to completely cure HIV

N size on that kind of experiment is VERY limited, so I would be very careful in making such claims.

Yes, but the underlying mechanism - the deletion in the CCR5 receptor coding fragment - is a known source of HIV immunity in humans.

The bigger problem here is that bone marrow transplant is by itself more dangerous than an antiretroviral-controlled HIV infection. Not to mention that CCR5 deletions are quite rare.

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