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Research priorities for an HIV cure: International AIDS Society Global Scientific Strategy 2021

  • Working Group 8: (Social, behavioral and ethical aspects of cure)
  • , The International AIDS Society (IAS) Global Scientific Strategy working group
  • , Core Leadership Group
  • , Working Group 1 (Understanding HIV reservoirs)
  • , Working Group 2 (HIV reservoir measurement)
  • , Working Group 3 (Mechanisms of virus control)
  • , Working Group 4 (Targeting the provirus)
  • , Working Group 5 (Targeting the immune system)
  • , Working Group 6 (Cell and gene therapy)
  • , Working Group 7 (Paediatric remission and cure)

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Abstract

Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV, lifelong treatment is required and there is no cure. HIV can integrate in the host genome and persist for the life span of the infected cell. These latently infected cells are not recognized as foreign because they are largely transcriptionally silent, but contain replication-competent virus that drives resurgence of the infection once ART is stopped. With a combination of immune activators, neutralizing antibodies, and therapeutic vaccines, some nonhuman primate models have been cured, providing optimism for these approaches now being evaluated in human clinical trials. In vivo delivery of gene-editing tools to either target the virus, boost immunity or protect cells from infection, also holds promise for future HIV cure strategies. In this Review, we discuss advances related to HIV cure in the last 5 years, highlight remaining knowledge gaps and identify priority areas for research for the next 5 years.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2085-2098
Number of pages14
JournalNature medicine
Volume27
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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