Why HIV Isn't a Death Sentence Anymore
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In the second video of our two-part series on HIV and AIDS, we look at the challenges that have kept scientists from developing a cure, and the treatments that have still managed to improve the outlook for those infected.\n\nWe're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017\n\nHosted by: Hank Green\n----------\nSupport SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow\n----------\nDooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, Inerri, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz\n----------\nLooking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?\nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow\nTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow\nTumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com\nInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow\n----------\nSources:\n\nhttps://www.avert.org/about-hiv-aids/cure\nhttps://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-science/searching-cure\nhttps://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-science/overview\nhttps://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/infographics/25/fda-approval-of-hiv-medicines\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001409.htm\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html\nhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~larget/Genetics629/hiv.pdf\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a11.htm\nhttp://www.ihv.org/Education--Training/General-HIV-AIDS-Information/AIDS-Acquired-Immune-Deficiency-Syndrome--/\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2863631 \nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3548350 \nhttp://time.com/4705809/first-aids-drug-azt/\nhttps://www.britannica.com/science/AZT\nhttp://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2010/09/a-brief-history-of-azt.html\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815149/ \nhttp://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/21/us/us-approves-drug-to-prolong-lives-of-aids-patients.html?pagewanted=all\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/28/opinion/azt-s-inhuman-cost.html \nhttps://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/hivaids\nhttp://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv/human-immunodeficiency-virus-hiv-infection\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058441/ \nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396582/ \nhttps://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/523119\nhttps://www.fda.gov/ForPatients/Illness/HIVAIDS/History/ucm151079.htm\nhttp://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002251\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/art/index.html\nhttps://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-programming/prevention/treatment-as-prevention\nhttps://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html\nhttp://www.aidsmap.com/Second-case-report-of-PrEP-failure-due-to-drug-resistant-virus/page/3093327/\nhttps://www.nature.com/news/hopes-of-hiv-cure-in-boston-patients-dashed-1.14324\nhttps://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/fact-sheets/19/93/what-is-a-latent-hiv-reservoir-\nhttp://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2015/02/timothy-ray-brown-doctor-who-cured-him.html\nhttps://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/24/16019590/hiv-vaccine-international-aids-society-conference\nhttp://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50018/title/Resistance-to-HIV-Engineered-Via-CRISPR/\nhttp://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0802905#t=articleTop\nhttps://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/sustained-viral-remission-research\nhttp://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002417\nhttp://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-therapy/fulltext/S1525-0016(17)30213-7\nhttps://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2017/09/28/research-dampens-hopes-of-hiv-cure-shows-progress-on-remission-without-drugs/\nhttps://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-015-0517-y\n\nImages:\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TEV_protease_summary.png
