Do you think that this could translate into a HIV cure at some point?

http://www.gizmag.com/experimental-treatment-for-ebola-virus/15261/

Good question. I hope our crunching work will set us free from this villain... the sooner the better :o)

I am sure that there will be a cure for HI at some point, but not any time soon.
There are two reasons:

The first is, that medicine is still not about healing but giving the body support to heal itself. Pharmacy is still a discipline of alchemy as we can see in this project: it is about mingling of substances and see what happens; nowadays on a very sophisticated and large scale level, though.
There will be only suppressants for HI but no cure, unless we really grasp viruses as biological automata and treat them accordingly:
There must be vital genetic sequences unique to the HIV, which cannot be changed without rendering the HIV disfunctional. These snippets must be found in those human cells responsible for the development of the HIV by some molecular testing device and rendered harmless. Either by encoding a "stop" signal into the sequence or by destroying the cell by e.g. marking this cell as "ill" to let the immune system destroy it.
In other words we have to invent a particle that acts very much like the HIV: targeting the same cells, looking for evidence of a HIV infection and finally manipulating the cell to make it work in our favour.

Understanding the HIV and its molecular mechanism lies far in the future. Single substances like Aspirin will certainly not do it.

And this is the second problem:
No COE in the world is able to explain his/her shareholders why they should invest billions into research in order solve this quickly. Besides, it must be obvious that a cure brings more profit than some life-long treatment. Moreover, once a cure would be found, all starvelings of this world would call for gratis treatment. So economy mechanism do not work in favour for a cure.

And countries? Well, the German government for example decided to launch a scientific programm as "great national effort" with the aim - brace yourselves - to reach the moon! (not even manned but with probes, no joke! I think it was the first victim of the recent austerity measures).
Admittedly, it is still difficult to communicate in any western country why you want to cure the gay's pest. Aren't they "receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet?" People react irritated if you tell them that about 45% of all HIV infected people are women.

I really would like to read some opinion about expectation of science world people, about this discussion of time to found a possible cure, based on recent advances and facts comproved around the world recently and that matters for the several fronts of effort to find a cure...

Would be great read something, for instance, coming from one of the experts on HIV/AIDS like the scientists involved on this WCG project.

Just a teaser to clarify more ours knowledges on that...

Hope get luck on that !

“If you want to activate latent HIV,” he explains, “you’ve got to activate all the host [cells] that have latent virus in them. Since you don’t know which ones are infected, the approach taken in the past has basically been to activate all CD4 [memory] cells.”

However, he says, “the immune system is not designed to work with every cell getting activated at the same time. People go into shock basically. It’s called a cytokine storm. So that’s not a good way [to activate latent HIV], because people can die.”



Once again, as I keep on reading the news about possible HIV erradication, this seems to be the way: get at the reservoir of inactive HIV