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A giant leap forward: HIV cure and treatment breakthroughs at CROI 2025
23/04/2025
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Groundbreaking discoveries shared at the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), held in San Francisco this March, have sparked a fresh wave of optimism in the global HIV community.
From long-acting antiretroviral therapies (ART) to new findings on broadly neutralising antibodies (bNAbs), gut health, aging, and hormone replacement therapy for women—this year’s conference felt like a giant leap forward in our collective journey toward a cure.
Despite ongoing concerns about potential U.S. funding cuts threatening global HIV programs, the atmosphere—both on the ground and online (how I attended)—was one of hope. That hope was especially palpable in the data presented on bNAbs, which could represent the most promising path yet toward what scientists are calling a “functional cure” for HIV.
