Gladstone Institutes Mar 3 2026 For people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), life-saving antiretroviral therapy keeps their HIV-infected immune cells from making new copies of the virus, preventing illness and transmission. Historically, these infected cells have been known as the "latent" HIV reservoir-implying that the HIV within the infected cells is completely inactive. But notion that the entirety of the HIV reservoir is latent is actually a misleading description, because