Scientist have recently made much progress in the area of rNAi or rNA interference in mice with human cells. These drugs illicit the 'dicer' mechanism to recongize and chop up foriegn rNA virus code inside human cells.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807130828.htm

We have all seen promising research come and go throughout the years with no real concrete results. This all makes me believe the ultimate anti-hiv cure will have to be 'combination treatment' in the form of a 'perfect storm.' Nature tends to work with exponential functions by having positive and negative feed back loops which have often been overlooked by most resulting in confused failure. I think a perfect combinational approach to cure hiv would have to hit hard and fast to avoid recombination, mutation and evolution of the virus. Some of the potential treatments could include, rNA(interference) inside the cell, viral resistant stem cell implants, anti-retroviral drugs, polymerization of the viral code strands, drugs that illicit the proper cytokine response mechanism amongst a few other approaches. Basically, the two basic approaches would work both inside the human cells and the virus at the same time. Everything would have to be going wrong for the virus, while everything is going right for the human immune system.

A little something to think about below this:

The epiphany of moment occurs with a shift in paradigm. Nature is not digital(on/off), rather it's analog with continous curves of beautiful geometry. We must learn to work in tandem with such before we will realize what having control in nature really means to us.