What you're talking about is Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) which is not only the most effective for o treatment for HIV, but also most retroviruses. HAART cannot kill current copies in the body, i can however stop the production of new ones (in various ways include nucleoside integrase inhibitors, non-nucleoside inhibitors, and protease inhibitors) AND it can also prevent the existing copies from entering the cells.

Two drugs that have already been developed for such a purpose are Maraviroc and Enfurvitide (sp?) and achieve this task by binding to the receptors (CCR5 co receptor) on the cell (CD4+)that the virus would normally bind to enter the cell (Maraviroc) or bind to the receptor on the virus (GP41) that it would use to connect to the phosholipid membrane of the cell


Simply put, yes meds for HIV can stop cells from getting infected, but complications occur, and the result is not absolute due to alot of variables, however it does significantly increase your life span

CCR5 inhibitors are a new class of antiretroviral drug used in the treatment of HIV. They are designed to prevent HIV infection of CD4 T-cells by blocking the CCR5 receptor. When the CCR5 receptor is unavailable, 'R5-tropic' HIV (the variant of the virus that is common in earlier HIV infection) cannot engage with a CD4 T-cell to infect the cell. Maraviroc, the first drug from this class to be marketed (as Selzentry in the US, Celsentri in Europe), was licensed in the summer of 2007. Drugs in this class exploit the knowledge gained when trying to understand why a small minority of people of northern European descent had a degree of naturally occurring immunity against HIV. It was discovered that a harmless genetic mutation meant that their CCR5 receptors were blocked (which some have speculated must have developed as a defence against the plague epidemics) thus denying HIV of its usual means of gaining a foothold.

In the world of HIV, an 'elite controller' is what is termed a 'long-term non-progressor' .. someone whose immune system, despite being infected with HIV, has been able to successfully suppress the virus to an undetectable level (HIV RNA below 50 copies/ml) for many years, without the help of antiretroviral medications. As the 'elite' prefix probably suggests, this group of people are incredibly rare. Of the millions of people worldwide who are HIV-positive, there are just a few thousand known 'elite controllers'. We have known about the existence of elite controllers for more than a decade and they have been (and continue to be) the subject of a number of studies hat hope to identify whatever naturally occurring immune response these people have .. with the ultimate hope that, once identified, this can somehow be stimulated in everyone who is living with HIV. It is known that, owing to a genetic mutation, a small minority of people of northern European descent have a degree of naturally occurring immunity against HIV (which some have speculated must have developed as a defence against the plague epidemics). The secret of the elite controllers could be related to this, it could be to do with the particular strain of HIV they are infected with, or it could be something else entirely. We simply do not know yet. The discovery of what gives some northern Europeans that degree of natural immunity against HIV has already lead to the development of an entirely new class of HIV drugs called CCR5 inhibitors. The first of these new drugs, maraviroc (marketed as Selzentry in the US, Celsentri in Europe), was licensed in the summer of 2007. The important thing to note is that, with the help of modern medicine, you do not need to be an 'elite controller' in order to be a long term survivor of HIV and AIDS. Modern antiretroviral treatments administered to a patient with quite advanced HIV infection (including those who have been diagnosed with AIDS) can very often help you to achieve a similar level of suppression in a matter of weeks.