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Ahh... that makes sense, and is the only way to combat HIV, now that I think about it. Once it is in your system, its numbers will be too large to effectively get rid of. But if the antibodies are present in enough numbers to get the HIV before it can replicate beyond a thousand or so (and thus have an exceedingly low chance of mutating successfully) or if the HIV can be otherwise prevented from infecting cells in the first place, like the receptor modifications, the disease can be prevented.
However, this only works if we have a way of getting the current HIV strands, which might mean that it might be best to stop giving AZT, etc. to people so that resistant strains are not born into the pool, or keep one method of HIV stoppage out of the combat to work as a vaccination agent.
Now I'm wondering if a high dose of AZT right at the time of infection could cure a person infected with HIV for a very short period of time. Like if someone was raped by an HIV-infected person, and they got AZT like the next day. Could this possibly prevent them from ever getting AIDS? Hmm... this could be thesis material, just do some tests with SIV... yeah, that'd work.
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