Why HIV Isn't a Death Sentence Anymore
In the second video of our two-part series on HIV and AIDS, we look at the challenges that have kept scientists from developing a cure, and the treatments that have still managed to improve...
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[♪ INTRO] If you’re looking for the virus that’s challenged scientists the most in the last 40 years, HIV is it. For a while, every time we’d develop a new treatment for it, the virus would just mutate so the drug didn’t work anymore. And even though the worst of the pandemic is over in the US, nearly 5,000 people around the world get infected with HIV every day, and we still don’t have a vaccine, or a cure. But in just a few decades, we’ve gone from knowing nothing about HIV and AIDS to being able to manage and control the disease. Today, with the recommended treatments, someone who’s HIV-positive is expected to live nearly as long as someone who’s uninfected. And researchers are working on all kinds of new ideas to kick even more viru...
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[♪ INTRO] If you’re looking for the virus that’s challenged scientists the most in the last 40 years, HIV is it. For a while, every time we’d develop a new treatment for it, the virus would just mutate so the drug didn’t work anymore. And even though the worst of the pandemic is over in the US, nearly 5,000 people around the world get infected with HIV every day, and we still don’t have a vaccine, or a cure. But in just a few decades, we’ve gone from knowing nothing about HIV and AIDS to being able to manage and control the disease. Today, with the recommended treatments, someone who’s HIV-positive is expected to live nearly as long as someone who’s uninfected. And researchers are working on all kinds of new ideas to kick even more viru...
