REFERENCES for "AIDS Cure Research Needs Your Help" (article that will be published Feb. 18, 2010)

For more information on several credible scientific possibilities for an HIV cure (or entirely new kind of treatment) discussed in "AIDS Cure Research Needs Your Help," see:

* The "Berlin Patient" -- the single person already cured of AIDS:
http://www.thebody.com/content/art53624.html

* How certain apes have evolved to tolerate HIV or SIV and not get sick:
http://tagbasicscienceproject.typepad.com/tags_basic_science_vaccin/2009/11/siv-pathogenesis-an-immune-response-unresolved.html

* Stimulating latent HIV so that it can be killed with ordinary antiretrovirals:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hiv-aids-latent-reservoir-treatment-cure


* Catalytic antibodies (abzymes), the technology in the Newsweek report:
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/pathology/research/circ/hivtherapyandvaccination.htm