{"id":11614,"date":"2016-07-07T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2016-07-07T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:59:45","slug":"how-will-an-hiv-cure-be-tested-and-proved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11614","title":{"rendered":"How will an HIV cure be tested and proved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks. You are right that even if a cure is found, someone will test positive using an HIV antibody test.<\/p>\n<p>How\u00a0to define a cure is a focus for lots of researchers &#8211; so it is\u00a0a very good question.<\/p>\n<p>One way will be to look for virus directly &#8211; for example using viral load tests &#8211; or similar tests. But although this sounds simple, it also involves thinking about how long someone would need to habe undetectable\u00a0resuts for it to be classified a cure.<\/p>\n<p>This will involve someone having to stop treatment &#8211; which is not generally recommended,<\/p>\n<p>Then, for\u00a0example, if the cure missed one single long lived sleeping cell, that then woke up after five years, or ten years. HIV would then rebound again &#8211; and the infection would be back. This is way cure researchers are thinkin that an HIV cure will be more like remission to cancer.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If HIV tests look for antibodies which are likely to be present even after someone is cured, I was wondering how would you test to see if\u00a0a person is cured from HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cure","category-other-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}