JUNE 29, 2025

HIV Research at a Crossroads: Defunding Is Not the Way Through

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

Although today’s antiretroviral therapy enables people with HIV to live longer and healthier lives because it can reduce the viral load to undetectable levels, ART cannot eliminate the latent viral reservoir and cure the disease. But Australian researchers made a breakthrough in HIV cure research: This one did not involve a bone marrow transplant, but used the same mRNA technology that allowed us to end the COVID-19 pandemic.

The team at the Doherty Institute, in