Why cant scientists cure HIV?

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you are correct about it mutating, but when scientists come up with a new medication they also become more resistent to the current ones, making it harder to come up with new medication and a cure

$$$$$Money is why. If they put the kind of money into research that they do other things, there probly would be a cure for aids. Money is the main reason behind most things$$

Because it is a virus that mutates.. They will concur it one day..

cause they cant exactly read the genetic code all the way so they know what hiv is causing inside our genes

The answer is because there is much more money in development of treatments then development of cures or prevention.

For an HIV vaccine, the problems have come mainly because the conserved protein regions are not very good antigens, Vaccines work by exposing the body to antigens. The good antigens on HIV happen to be in highly variable regions of the viral proteins.

There are groups who have promising results using DNA vaccines in high doses from a mixture of several HIV-1 and HIV-2 strains, and making hybrids with SIV, but all of this takes time.


However, basically no one who has health insurance dies as a result of HIV infection anymore.

It's a virus. You'll have to study virus' to understand the specifics, because I can't explain them, but there is no cure for any (or most, if I'm forgetting one or two) virus/'. They just run their course. Unfortunately, some like HIV run their course until you die.

Add in that the virus mutates. Now even if you can create a vaccine for the virus, you catch a different strain. The vaccine is useless because your body has the wrong antibodies. They don't recognize this virus. And HIV goes after the most important cells, the Helper T cells, preventing your immune system from fighting off and recognizing other virus'.

It's a super virus. It doesn't kill you - what it does is lowers your immune system's strength, and that kills you in the end.

Hope this helped and gets you to do some more research if it didn't. ^_^0

The HIV virus attaches to the T cells by recongnizing the surface protein CD4. After binding to the T cell, the virus enters the cell by membrane fusion. There, a cDNA copy is made by reverse transcriptase. This enzyme lacks the proofreading property of DNA polymerases, so the errors made by the virus are not corrected. Up to 10 out of 8,000 bases may become mutated. Therefore, the drugs and vaccines scientists come up with to battle the HIV virus cannot bind to the constantly changing viral protiens.

Its a punishment from GOD!!
Heheh

On a lighter note, there are medicines that can relief the pain and prolong the bearer's life. Though its expensive....

And I believe, soon, scientists or researchers may soon find a cure for HIV AIDS!

Slowly but surely..