check this website:http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/

it's updated sometimes (the text on the bottom of the site about 'last update' is incorrect!)

greets

In a nutshell, it's an extraordinarily difficult virus to match a cure to at any single instant, let alone to cure it for life because its random mutations are complex, rapid, and forever evading.

Nice site, but incomplete. I just aidsmap to place a link to FAAH on their site.

From what I read, I doubt we can ever "cure" a retrovirus. effective innoculation against such a rapidly mutating virus is also almost impossible.

From the NIH:
"HIV continually evolves because of genetic mutation and recombination. Thus, researchers will need to account for strain variation within individuals and among populations when developing HIV vaccines. Initially, a person is infected with only one or a limited number of HIV variants. Once HIV infection becomes established, however, the virus continually undergoes genetic changes, and many variants may arise within an infected person.

Whenever a drug or immune response destroys one variant, a distinct but related resistant variant can emerge. In addition, certain variants may thrive in specific tissues or become dominant in an individual because they replicate faster than others. Any of these changes may yield a virus that can escape identification and attack by the immune system."

Hi jerochan,
Correct. Keep in mind that human cells have very efficient anti-retrovirus mechanisms that are disabled by the HIV virus. Other species with slightly different proteins have a similar mechanism that is not disarmed by the HIV virus, so they are effectively immune to HIV. It is an evolutionary arms-race. So there may be a solution that can eventually be found.

Right now we are trying to find new protease inhibitor candidate drugs in FightAIDS@Home.

Lawrence