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by giantg2 821 days ago
"- Chemotherapy is used to kill all living bone marrow and remove all previous unedited stem cells.

- New edited stem cells are inserted, and patient recovers with new blood production being of healthy red blood cells."

It's very likely HIV could be cured similarly. I believe all the people who have been cured so far are bone marrow transplant recipients in which the marrow had a specific gene or genes.