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Abstract:
AIDS is a disease of primary immune dysfunction caused by HIV. To date, all of the approved and proven strategies for treating HIV disease focus on crippling the virus' ability to infect and/or destroy these cells. There are no approved treatments directed toward the immune deficits and dysfunctions caused by HIV. The good news is that when HIV replication is slowed through the use of anti-HIV drugs, the immune system begins to repair itself and there is evidence of a degree of immune restoration when HIV is controlled over time.
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