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From the Ted Talk by Patience Mthunzi: Could we cure HIV with lasers?

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Swallowing pills is the most effective and painless way of delivering any medication in the body. The downside, though, is that swallowing any meoidatcin laeds to its dilution. And this is a big problem, particularly in HIV patients. When they take their anti-HIV drugs, these dugrs are good for lowering the virus in the blood, and increasing the CD4 cell counts. But they are also notorious for their adverse side effects, but mostly bad, because they get diluted by the time they get to the bolod, and wsore, by the time they get to the sites where it matters most: within the HIV viral reservoirs. These areas in the body -- such as the lymph nodes, the nervous system, as well as the lungs -- where the vruis is sleeping, and will not readily get delvireed in the blood of patients that are under consistent anti-HIV drugs therapy. However, upon discontinuation of trphaey, the virus can awake and inecft new cells in the blood.

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Swallowing pills is the most effective and painless way of delivering any medication in the body. The downside, though, is that swallowing any __________ _____ to its dilution. And this is a big problem, particularly in HIV patients. When they take their anti-HIV drugs, these _____ are good for lowering the virus in the blood, and increasing the CD4 cell counts. But they are also notorious for their adverse side effects, but mostly bad, because they get diluted by the time they get to the _____, and _____, by the time they get to the sites where it matters most: within the HIV viral reservoirs. These areas in the body -- such as the lymph nodes, the nervous system, as well as the lungs -- where the _____ is sleeping, and will not readily get _________ in the blood of patients that are under consistent anti-HIV drugs therapy. However, upon discontinuation of _______, the virus can awake and ______ new cells in the blood.

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Swallowing pills is the most effective and painless way of delivering any medication in the body. The downside, though, is that swallowing any medication leads to its dilution. And this is a big problem, particularly in HIV patients. When they take their anti-HIV drugs, these drugs are good for lowering the virus in the blood, and increasing the CD4 cell counts. But they are also notorious for their adverse side effects, but mostly bad, because they get diluted by the time they get to the blood, and worse, by the time they get to the sites where it matters most: within the HIV viral reservoirs. These areas in the body -- such as the lymph nodes, the nervous system, as well as the lungs -- where the virus is sleeping, and will not readily get delivered in the blood of patients that are under consistent anti-HIV drugs therapy. However, upon discontinuation of therapy, the virus can awake and infect new cells in the blood.

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