How close are we to eradicating HIV

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39年前,第一例艾滋病病例被正式报告时,人们束手无措,当时的人们对于引起艾滋病的元凶——人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)还知之甚少,得了艾滋病就相当于就地宣判了死刑。为增进人们对艾滋病的认识,世界卫生组织于1988年将每年的12月1日定为世界艾滋病日,今年已是第33个了,一流的抗感染专家与新药研发团队依旧奋战在抗击艾滋病的最前线,相信不久的将来,人类会研发出更多更有效的治疗方案来攻克这一难题。

The world is getting closer to achieving one of the most important public health goals of our time: eradicating HIV.

And to do this, we won't even have to cure the disease.

We simply have to stop HIV from being transmitted until eventually it fizzles out.

Once, this goal would have seemed impossible.

HIV has caused millions of deaths, and is one of the most devastating diseases that humanity has ever known.

But we're now at a point where new advances such as one-pill, once-a-day medications are helping us tackle HIV in effective ways.

HIV is a retrovirus, meaning it integrates copies of itself into an infected cell's DNA, allowing it to replicate and infect other cells.

HIV has evolved numerous ways to evade the human immune system, which makes it difficult to cure.

But by developing ways to block HIV replication, we can stop the spread of HIV itself.

That's where antiretrovirals, a. k. a. ARVs, come in.

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