I think I have eventually found out why it takes so long for HIV positive people to ascertain the potency of some working medications they are taking. I feel this may be common knowledge to the initiated but for people like me, it took a long while to figure it out.

Being a believer in herbs, I have followed several herbal preparations that work well with people with HIV and did not understand why I was seeing complete reversal of symptoms and people getting well miraculously and maintaining this good health ever after but they would still test positive to HIV even though their CD4, CD8 and Viral load suggested they had been 'cured'.

It took a long time and several observations realizing and coming up with the concept that:

There are several herbal preparations, at least what I have come to see are more herbal and non-orthodox solutions, that work very well and in my humble opinion could be pronounced as cures.

What I am realizing from some clients of mine using a working herbal solution is that because the antibody test is measuring the body's resistance to the virus rather than the presence of the virus, even when an efficacious preparation has removed the virus and people are completely cured, it takes several months running into a year or even years before a negative test on the antibody test would be registered.

From my experience, once people are cured, a DNAPCR test is the first line of testing to confirm the complete absence of the presence, even the DNA of the virus in the blood, tissues, brains, bone marrow etc....meaning complete eradication and cure. But because the body has been fighting and responding to the virus over several months/years, the antibodies would continue to mimic this and an antibody test would still be positive - they still trying to fight an imaginary virus. Then after a long while, when the body comes to accept that there are no more viruses to fight, it would gradually stop its activity and reaction and then cured people test negative even on the HIV antibody test even after confirmation by DNA PCR that they had been cured several months ago.

I am not a scientist nor a medical person and am solely basing my argument on observation. I hope the scientists amongst us would come up to explain this phenomenon I have observed and confirm or bebunk this my made up theory.

This is my 2 cents only. Cheers guys!