Can HIV live in freezing environments?

I heard that HIV can be preserved in freezing environments until thawed out. Is this true?

Like, could it live in ice cream for a really long time?

HIV only lives in the human body, and only can be transferred as such, so I doubt it would be "living" in ice cream.
Viruses are interesting organisms because they really aren't alive, they are parasitic sub-microscopic organisms that feed off of the host. Once you contract HIV, a process known as the lysogenic cycle takes place and the HIV Virus literally implants it's DNA into your cells, so everytime your cells replicate, the virus's DNA is replicated too.
There may be a process by which you could freeze the virus in a culture, but it's not alive anyway in the air, and thus not an airborn illness. So don't worry about going skiing and catching HIV!!

HIV is a retrovirus, and virus could not be considered as a living organism since it lacks metabolic enzymes, ribosomes and other equipments required for making proteins. Thus, a virus cannot be killed since it is non-living outside a host cell in the first place.

HIV likes warm environments; after 12 hours, it dies if outside of the body.

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