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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The term is “reservoir” – HIV lives in cells. The ways of attacking it interfere with its reproduction, they don’t actually kill it. Small numbers of it infect tissue outside the immune system and can live there for years until inexplicably multiplying.

Source: Wrote my senior thesis on AIDS mortality trends.

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