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I've already seen quite a bit of not accurate stuff about this cure for AIDS thing, for the people who might be interested in being well informed here's a quick very basic course in immunology:
Viral infections are notoriously challenging to treat, and damn near impossible to cure for a few reasons. One of the main ones is that they're nature's ultimate moochers. They're not strictly speaking "living" organisms bc they don't do their own reproduction.
To stay alive they need a host cell whose machinery they can use to make copies of their own genetic material and make proteins for a capsule if they don't just steal parts. So the way the body fights them is usually by destroying the cells they infect. Unlike say bacteria which
Are their own living reproducing things that can be easily targeted and destroyed by our immune system and/or meds. We have lots of drugs that can destroy cells, but they're often pretty toxic (think cancer drugs) so viral medication often aims to do something else:
They can prevent the virus from infecting our cells, from reproducing if they're already inside the cell (so they can die when the cell is destroyed) or from leaving the cell if they already did the previous steps. Or all of the above. But it's like shooting at a moving target.
One of the perks of not being a living organisms is that viruses dgaf about reproducing "properly". As long as they're good to go infect some more they're fine. So they reproduce with lots of mistakes(mutations) which can make them hard to recognise by meds or our immune system.
That's why you get a cold every year, and there's no proper cure for it. That's also why there's a new flu vaccine every year. Cuz by the time your body develops ways of fighting one version, there's a new one that's just different enough to fool everyone again.
So imagine the time, effort, and cost of developing, testing, and putting out medication for something, only to find out that it'd no longer be effective after 6 months.
Now what does this have to do with HIV? Well HIV is a virus of course, so it obeys all those basic principles. But what makes it a bitch and a half is that it doesn't just infect any regular old cells, it goes for the big dogs. It infects your immune cells, your line of defense.
And at first it's no biggy, your body deals with it the way it deals with any virus infections. The healthy cells will eliminate infected cells with extreme prejudice.
The infected cells also help by commiting hara-kiri. But here's the catch, everytime you get an infection that requires your immune cells to multiply, guess what also multiplies with them. The virus. And it's not a 1:1 ratio. And it also kills immune cells as it replicates.
So it's cool for a minute, but after a while your number of immune cells start to drop as the virus is just replicating and killing them way too quickly. That's when you get AIDS.
And without treatment it gets to a point where your immune system is so weak and understaffed that the most basic ass infections that your body wouldn't normally break a sweat getting rid of can actually kill you.
So treatment for HIV/AIDS is a combination of different drugs that use a variety of mechanisms to try and prevent the virus from infecting cells, replicating inside them, prevent replicated viruses from assembling into functional little death machines.
We need multiple drugs because if you use just one method, the virus is going to mutate and you'll be left dealing with a stronger version.
So I say all this to say this: Treating viral infections is fucking hard. There isn't any magic bullet, a one stop cure. So if you're gonna RT any old thing you see on the internet, at least make sure you have some basic understanding of what's factual and what isn't.
Facts don't matter and all, but this is some shit that actually affects people's lives, so maybe in this case they should.
Here are some sources for people who care about stuff like that :
https://medlineplus.gov/viralinfections.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209710/
https://medlineplus.gov/viralinfections.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209710/
