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Turns out kids might beat HIV before adults do—plot twist of the decade.
Their tiny immune systems plus early treatment are doing something wild: staying virus-free even after stopping meds.

HIV: &quot;You cannot stop me!&quot;
Babies: &quot;Hold my pacifier.&quot;
Early treatment in newborns is pushing the virus into hiding. Science is seriously impressive.

Probably way harder to convice govts to give their limited amount of grants to foreign universities instead of their own. It is not like this is the only important science to be funded. If you choose to fund this - then it means you need to not fund something else.

Depending on the institution they work for, different rules may apply. But in general, scientists would be encouraged to seek funding from wherever it is available.

I think it&#x27;s rare without strings.There are some cooperation grants, where you must have researchers from two countries (where you are and where the money comes from) and perhaps part of the money must be used to pay travel and stays of some of the researches in the other country, in both directions.

That’s a big flaw. The US needs to stop being at the center of everything, and now we can really see the vulnerability it causes. I hope this becomes an impulse to diversify research funding more.

It is certainly possible to try to get another government to fund it, but the NIH is the largest source of funding for health science research in the world, both for domestic U.S. research and also international research.So is it theoretically possible? Yes. Is it likely, especially for expensive clinical trials? Not really.

I suppose there&#x27;s always the private sector, but there&#x27;s much more money in diet pills than children with lifelong illnesses.

How is that the opposite? It is exactly the same. A govt funding research in another country.

&gt; a previous commitment from the National Institutes of Health to support a clinical trial of the novel therapy in HIV-infected children being withdrawnWhen seeking funding as a scientist, do they have to only ask their own government or is it possible to get a different country to foot the bill?

The ways the flu and HIV work are radically different. Most of the time your body can fight off the flu&#x2F;colds, etc and once we do we&#x27;re mostly immune. HIV specifically infects and then spreads by invading the body&#x27;s white blood cells. You die because eventually it gets at all of them and you have no natural defences (full blown AIDS). Our body can&#x27;t fight it off with our natural defences, no matter how well trained.We&#x27;ve actually been able to &quot;kill&quot; the virus in our bodies with drugs for awhile. The &quot;AIDS cocktails&quot; first developed in the 1990s did work (but originally required constant pill taking, even all night and had bad side effects) eventually were iterated (via new drugs and new timed-release pills) into essentially a single, daily pill that will now keep your viral load to zero - meaning you can have unprotected sex and not spread the virus. In theory, you could give these pills to sex workers to take every day and its significantly reduce the risk of the virus establishing itself.The issue with HIV is that it can settle and lay dormant in various places the drugs won&#x27;t get to (herpes and chickenpox&#x2F;shingles do a similar thing). So we can&#x27;t technically cure it, outside of very extreme procedures - IIRC a bone marrow transplant has cured somebody, but that is a dangerous procedure that has a high enough mortality rate that we only do it for otherwise deadly cancers.

Also, it&#x27;s hard to comprehend how much the virus changes within one infected person. It&#x27;s a common talking point in HIV seminars: the diversity of HIV strains in one infected individual exceeds that of flu worldwide in any given year [1]. Additionally, the parts of the virus that are more or less universally conserved (and thus are good targets for a vaccine) are hidden except for the moments where the virus binds the target cell. If I wanted to fabricate a difficult to vaccine pathogen, it would be very similar to HIV-1.1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;11714622&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;11714622&#x2F;</a>

Vaccine does not exist, but there are pre-exposure drugs that will keep you safe while engaging in risky activities. Also, if you have HIV, there are drugs you have to regularly take that prevent both spread and development into AIDS.

I believe it is. We&#x27;ve had vaccines for the common flu for a while and routinely create new vaccine formulations that are effective against the current strains. Nothing like that exists for HIV.

The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children