Jonah Sacha did not think it would work. Each of the three therapies his team combined had already been tried against HIV on its own, and each had failed to permanently clear the virus. Stacking them together seemed unlikely to change that arithmetic.
It did. In a study published in Nature Microbiology on Aug. 10, researchers led by Oregon Health & Science University reported that eight infant macaques given a combination regimen starting 72 hours after infection showed no detectable virus anywhere investigators looked, roughly a year after treatment was stopped.
