HIV flushed out by cancer drug

> It is worth to remember that there is a way to completely cure HIV

N size on that kind of experiment is VERY limited, so I would be very careful in making such claims.

Rather than thinking of this as a way to cure HIV, I think of it as a demonstration that if someone has a life-threatening blood cancer – something so acutely lethal that you will take the risk of destroying their entire bone marrow – then if you can find matched but CCR5-deficient donors, you can also potentially cure their HIV.

Isn't the whole medical field probability-based?

This is not the problem since you can chase out any remaining virus just by extending the treatment time. The real problem is viral reservoirs that the treatment does not reach (eg behind the blood brain barrier).

Having said this if I was infected with HIV this is exactly what I would be doing (ie treating with drugs that suppressed viral replication while chasing the latent virus out of hiding).

I almost agree. From the article:

> "This molecule has great potential to advance into translational and clinical studies."

> However, the drug has still not been tested in people who are HIV-positive.

To be sure that this new treatment is useful you must try it in a double blind experiment with many patients for many years.

Now, it's only an interesting idea with some in vitro support, but it's no a real cure. The title "HIV flushed out by cancer drug" is an optimistic exaggeration.