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# Study confirms HIV incurable
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/study_confirms_hiv_incurable_0703100751/
- Published: 2010-03-07T19:49:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:52:06.000Z
- Description: University of Michigan researchers led by Kathleen Collins found HIV can hide in the progenitors of blood cells in bone marrow, where it may reawaken later. The finding, in Nature Medicine, helps explain why antiviral combinations do not free patients of the virus.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Disease, Health News, #vivvo-import

It's been known for long that a HIV patient can use a combination of antivirals to eliminate HIV, but the patient will never be free of AIDS. Now a study finds the difficulty is that the virus can hide in certain types of bone marrow cells.

Dr. Kathleen Collins, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and colleagues tested bits of AIDS virus and cells from people infected with HIV in their laboratory and found the HIV hiding place.

The researchers say the HIV virus that hides in the parents or progenitors of blood cells may reawaken under certain circumstances and strike the patients or even kill them.

The study was published in the March 7 online edition of Nature Medicine.

By Jimmy Downs