One of the greatest advances in modern medicine has been the development of HAART for the treatment of HIV. HAART decreases HIV-associated morbidity and mortality for patients with regular access to these medications, but it does not appear to completely restore their health for reasons that currently are unclear. As a result, there has been an increased interest in ways to fully eradicate HIV from infected individuals (ie, a “sterilizing cure”), or to at least achieve a “functional cure.”
