The pharmacopeia against the virus has increased year by year. There are drugs that prevent the virus from replicating efficiently, drugs that prevent the virus from duplicating its RNA or integrating into the host genome, drugs that prevent the virus from maturing into infective particles, drugs that prevent the virus from fusing to the vulnerable cells—five or six separate classes of drugs in all. Therapy with these medicines is so effective that patients with HIV can live for decades without any sign of the virus—undetectable, in the parlance of medicine. They are not cured, but so deeply
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