Is it good to hope for an AIDS cure, if so what good would it bring for us HIV carriers?

HIV can be stopped over a very short period by simply stopping promiscuity. Finding a cure would increasepromiscuity like the pill did.

Well, if promiscuity wasn't intrinsically dangerous, it would be okay. I hope you aren't a religious nutjob as well as an HIV carrier.

be positive... it may well be a reality one day

it is always good to be positive and have hope. depressed people are sick more often. if you're a carrier, be ethical and be sure to practice safe sex, use a latex condom. if you infect someone who later contracts aids, it is murder.

I doubt there'll be a cure before the sun turns blue, but people live in hope.

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Behind the stunning results is a totally new approach to HIV treatment. It makes use of an epilepsy drug -- valproic acid -- that flushes HIV out of its most remote hiding places in the body.

Combined with powerful HIV drugs, the approach might totally eliminate the AIDS virus from the body. That promises a cure for AIDS, says study leader David M. Margolis, MD.

"This might lead to a therapy that would clear virus from an infected person, or reduce it to such a low level they would not need treatment for a very long time," Margolis tells WebMD. "But that is only a hope for the future. It will require a lot more work. Today, HIV is still a problem."

The Margolis team's groundbreaking report appears in the Aug. 13 issue of The Lancet. Accompanying it is an editorial by McGill University researcher Jean-Pierre Routy, MD, PhD.

"This is very serious data -- a very exciting piece of information," Routy tells WebMD. "For the first time, the disease may be attacked in the last cells where it is hiding. That is a sign of hope. We can expect one day to remove all these infected cells."
Margolis warns patients not to try taking valproic acid. It's a drug with serious possible side effects that include liver damage and, if taken by pregnant women, birth defects. Valproic acid also has dangerous interactions with AIDS drugs. In fact, one of the four patients in the study developed serious anemia because of an interaction with one of the drugs in his HAART regimen.

"It is totally irrational for patients to add valproic acid to therapy, outside clinical trials, at this point," Margolis says. "How much valproic acid would they take? How long would they take it for? How could you measure when they had enough? How do they know when to stop? There are plenty of reasons not to take valproic acid at this point."

Routy says that his team is organizing a clinical trial to try to find the best way to use valproic acid as an adjunct to HAART. He also expects the findings to give new impetus to therapeutic AIDS vaccines.

Meanwhile, the world AIDS pandemic continues unabated.

"We have to focus on HIV treatment today," Margolis says. "Right now we must continue to prevent, detect, and treat HIV infection. Finding a vaccine to prevent AIDS is still very important. But that goal is no more challenging than the goal of eradicating infection. And that is a worthy goal as well."

"Eradicating HIV from the body is a big hope," Routy says. "But the hope is not today."

The findings raise other hopes as well. Valproic acid inhibits an important enzyme called HDAC. Inhibiting HDAC, Verdin says, also fights cancer. Major drug companies already are racing to develop HDAC inhibitors as cancer drugs. These drugs might also be powerful anti-HIV drugs.

There's also speculation -- and some promising lab findings -- suggesting that HDAC inhibitors might be useful in fighting other latent viruses such as herpes.

HOPE ITSELF IS EVERY MAN,S WEAPON . we all hope or wish for everything good in life and we go out in search of our needs and aspirations . having seen my family die of AIDS , mother ,dad and four sisters and in my Clan being in my own opinion the only HIV negative person i have experience of Hope .

I have questions on AIDS no one has . I have come to realise that AIDS is not God sent , its simply a viral disease that science has not got a cure yet . One day a preacher was preaching about AIDS and how God has sent it to wipe off cheats off the earth . I stopped him and asked him one question . I said during 1970 did he ever get treated for "sick " , Are there still survivors of the first Syphilis and gonorrhoea attack in this world . If yes did God forgive their promiscuity and gave them a second chance . How did they survive this STD . I think it was by hope and design ( Science ) that they did not commit suicide after seeing others with the same sickness die , they hoped there will come a cure and it came , it got treated and they survived only to preach doom to AIDS sufferers simply because no treatment has been found yet .

Follow the events , follow the science , pray to God for hope and courage and leave the rest to fate to decide . I tell you if my Family had only lived two more years Science would have added many more years to them and i see why not to you