New discovery helps explain why HIV can return so quickly

New discovery helps explain why HIV can return so quickly

A long-standing belief about HIV has quietly shaped how scientists think about the virus. For decades, researchers described the virus as hiding in a “latent reservoir,” a group of infected cells that stay silent during treatment. New research now challenges that idea, revealing a more active and complex picture inside the body. For people living with human immunodeficiency virus, antiretroviral therapy has transformed the disease. These drugs s…