HIV patients show no signs of infection after an experimental treatment; Is the cure finally found?

HIV still has no cure. More scientists are researching on how to aid this disease. Currently, a team of experts is experimenting and might find a cure for HIV.

A team of scientist from the UK claimed that they have found a remarkable progress after working on a groundbreaking test on a possible cure for HIV infection. The test patient showed no sign of the infection after the experimental treatment.

Five of Britain's top universities with the support coming from NHS conducted the research. The experts combined the standard antiretroviral drugs with a drug which reactivates passive HIV and a vaccine that activate the immune system to ruin the infected cells.

In the study, 50 patients are being tested. Previous test on the first person to accomplish the whole treatment, no signs of the virus were detected in the blood.

However, there is still a lot of research needed before the experiment can be declared as HIV cure. The researchers cannot be sure if the HIV is really gone. As the antiretroviral drugs show that the HIV re-emerged in people that thought to have been cured.

Managing director of the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research Infra­structure Mark Samuels said that "This is one of the first serious attempts at a full cure for HIV. We are exploring the real possibility of curing HIV. This is a huge challenge and it's still early days, but the progress has been remarkable," according to The Guardian.

Meanwhile, Timothy Ray Brown was the only person believed that have been cured of HIV. His treatment was in Germany. Bone marrow transplant was needed to replace his own cancerous cells with stem cells to reform his immune system. The donor for his transplant was naturally resistant to HIV infection. But according to BBC News, the experts suggested that the transplant is a dangerous process and not recommended.