Why Some Infected With HIV Remain Symptom Free Without Antiretro...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Wed, 08/13/2008 - 01:30

AIDS experts say they have compelling evidence that some people with HIV who for years and even decades show extremely low levels of the virus in their blood never progress to full-blown AIDS and remain symptom free even without treatment, probably do so because of the strength of their immune systems, not any defects in the strain of HIV that infected them in the first place.

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