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While this treatment course doesn't appear to be without serious side effects or scale well let's not lose sight of the real win here. Reinforcing that a cure is possible.

"The surprise success now confirms that a cure for H.I.V. infection is possible, if difficult, researchers said."

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^ So much this. For everyone of us who know and care about someone who has HIV, and for everyone who has it, it's basically a sunbeam of hope -- regardless of how effective or not it turns out to be in practice.

Especially people who both parents died of age like my siblings. It gives you hope for a future where that won't be the outcome.

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