Why can we get HIV to a viral load of 0 but can’t get rid of the virus?

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Why can we get HIV to a viral load of 0 but can’t get rid of the virus?

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Answer 1

Maybe an analogy helps:

It’s like fighting racism: you can remove every poster, outlaw all speech, and ban every content promoting it, but that won’t get rid of it inside the heads of the people.

Just with cells’ DNA instead of heads.