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AIDS Could Be History in Half a Century: " huge increase in HIV drug use could just about end the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a Canadian research team. In fact, adoption of the new strategy they propose could reduce the worldwide prevalence of the virus seventy-fold, the researchers claim.
Treating patients with a combination of drugs known as 'highly active anti-retroviral therapy,' or HAART, reduces the level of HIV virus in patients' blood until it is no longer detectable, which reduces their ability to infect others. "