>even anti-retrovirals show that an individual can be healthy post-infection Anti-retrovirals only do so much - they have to be taken for the patient's whole l

>even anti-retrovirals show that an individual can be healthy post-infection Anti-retrovirals only do so much - they have to be taken for the patient's whole life. This is different, they are claiming that HIV has effectively been eradicated in a living body, which just hasn't happened before. This isn't meant to be a clinical trial, it's the only living proof we have that we can kill all the HIV without killing the patient. And you're mistaken about in vivo. In vivo = "within the living", in vitro = "within glass" (& "in silico" = "within silicon", ie. simulated on a computer).