As immunology takes a greater role in HIV treatment, as it already has in autoimmune diseases, we will all have to become more familiar with its function. However, I take comfort in clinicians managing with a rudimentary understanding of basic science.
Virology and interrupting HIV on a molecular level is so simple to understand in comparison to understanding immunology. This slide below by Professor Cameron outlined where immunotherapy may play a role (with ARV) in treating HIV. While immunology is the place where a cure for HIV may come, interrupting the function of the immune system to do so may create significant unintended consequences.
