The day I was diagnosed, just a little over a month now from Acute HIV infection, I was frantically trying to find as much information as I could. A google search returned a result that read: A Cure for HIV Found? I couldn't find the same article again for a few weeks. I knew of BYU and Vanderbilt's involvement, and so a google search of thse two schools and HIV returned a lot of results, all about the same article I read about in February. Below is some information regarding it.

FINALLY, MY QUESTION: What can one make of this information? Is it a business ploy to raise stock prices, or is it promising?

CSA54 - Dr. Paul Savage's Cure for the HIV/AIDS Virus

CSA54 is the newly-discovered Caragenin compound which has been proven to destroy various strains of the HIV virus that causes AIDS. The compound was invented by Dr. Paul Savage of Brigham Young University, and independently proven effective by Dr. Derya Unutmaz of Vanderbilt University. CSA54 has been licensed to Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals of Denver. It is expected to take three to seven years before CSA54 is readily available.

It simply is too early to say whether CSA 54 is safe and effective enough to evaluate for possible cure of HIV infection. I hope you have connected with a local HIV specialist to evalaute how you are doing and whether antiretroviral therapy (ART) would be considered for you at present. Current ART is generally so effective that very long term preservation of health and immune status (measured in many decades) is expected for many/most patients. If a cure is found at some time in the future (huge challenges are posed by the biology of HIV infection for that to occur) it would make sense that maintaining the best health and immune system until that time would be a good general strategy to follow. KH