Drug Used Against Alcohol, Cocaine Abuse May Hold Clues in AIDS Cure Quest, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Johns Hopkins University Study

Bloomberg -- A drug used commonly to treat alcohol abuse will be tested as a way of purging the last vestiges of HIV from patients, extending the hunt for an AIDS cure. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University plan to recruit 20 HIV- infected people for a trial of the drug, Antabuse.