I just came in here to yell SCIEEEEEENCE! in a cracking, unsteady voice.
In response to the OP, I've also heard that gene therapy has promise as an HIV cure. Apparently a chap who was HIV positive needed a bone marrow transplant for some reason or another, and after the transplant the patient's HIV was wiped out. You see, the donor was genetic freak whose super powers granted immunity to HIV, and the blood from his/her marrow eradicated the virus.
Google turns up this story on human trials for the treatment starting up:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/hivtreatment/
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