Am I right?: Anti-Retroviral Treatment inhibits the growth of HIV, but there is no cure.?

I know there is no cure, but there is a treatment that reduces the mortality of HIV infection.

You are correct. The aggressive approach to treatment is highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). The aim of HAART is to reduce the amount of virus in your blood to very low or even nondetectable levels, although this doesn't mean the virus is gone. A cocktail of 3 or more drugs is used. The goal of treatment is achieving the maximum suppression of symptoms for as long as possible and while this may not ultimately reduce the mortality rate (1,000 people will still die), it slows it down (but it will take 15 years for all 1,000 to die instead of all 1,000 dying in the same year).

You stated "I know there is no cure, but there is a treatment that reduces the mortality of HIV infection." What treatment is this you're referring to that reduces mortality?

Yes, you are correct. There is some exciting research happening though:) you should google HIV immunity and cure- some interesting things come up!

their probably aren't ani but maybe in the future

~hope that answered you question

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