JULY 27, 2018

Putting a ‘Nail in the Coffin of HIV’

By Deanna DePeau

Advances in the control of HIV infection may finally “put a nail in the coffin of HIV,” said Anthony S. Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam.

Dr. Fauci asserted that the future of combatting HIV would not rely on antiretroviral therapy (ART), but would look to promoting the immune system to exert control over HIV, in other words in the development of a