Advancing Life: Biomedical Technology

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Although there’s treatments and drugs for patients with HIV, there’s a lot of side effects such as nausea, vomiting, weakened bones, higher blood sugar, emotional distress, etc. Currently, scientists have not discovered a treatment which would completely cure the body from HIV or lower the symptoms from present medications.

As stated before, there’s no cure, but drugs to control HIV Scientists are still researching to find a way to completely heal HIV and the following are current obstacles that are hindering their progress:

Scientists do not fully understand how HIV reservoirs work because of its structures and functions, which renders scientists unable to find, measure, and destroy them

Although most HIV clinical trials involve men, roughly half of those who have the virus are female More research is required to determine whether medicines will be effective for women and girls

Hidden HIV reservoirs This is a significant challenge for scientists because it’s the reason why they can’t fully heal HIV because some of the HIV virus persists inside stable reservoirs, which cannot be detected by the immune system and drugs. Financial restraints for patients will restrict the treatments that can be provided to a larger population as the solution will likely cost much more

Scientists continue to search for a potential cure for HIVs, and with present technologies they have developed some drugs and treatments to control the virus, but none that can rid the body of it. Even with the present medications available, there are many symptoms that can add stress and decrease the quality of life for many individuals, however, as time progresses and funding is secured, researchers will eventually find a solution and help millions around the world