Irish Examiner view: From treatment to cure for Aids

American patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV

The success with one dangerous virus should encourage medical scientists to find a cure for another — Covid.

For decades, people with HIV have been treated with a cocktail of drugs to prevent them from developing Aids, still a dangerous and often fatal condition.

The success of various treatments shifted the focus away from finding a cure for the virus to treating it as a chronic condition to be managed.