Fig. 1From: HIV-1 functional cure: will the dream come true?A feasible strategy for the functional cure of HIV-1. Firstly, ‘shock and kill’ strategies could be quite useful in kicking out the ‘shallow’ latent viruses and eliminating them. Then, ‘silencing’ strategies, which permanently inactivate the ‘deeply’ silenced viruses, accompanied by potent anti-HIV-1 immune surveillance, could subsequently be utilized to achieve the functional cure of HIV-1Back to article page