No. There is currently no treatment for AIDS. But several businesses are now working on and testing an AIDS and HIV vaccine. For the time being, HIV-positive patients can take medications. Antiretroviral treatment is one of them; it prevents virus replication. Since most HIV patients may now live long, healthy lives provided they adhere to the regimen, ART has changed the path of HIV patients' lives. ART and early detection lower the risk of AIDS and other opportunistic illnesses.