text: if hiv is incorporated to our dna with reverse transcriptase, can't a good strand reverse it? with reverse transcriptase as well. unfortunately its not that simply.  you have to stop the hiv from actually effecting the dna in the first place.  otherwise its just a back and forth game.  i see where you're going with that thought and its a good one, but it wouldn't cure the hiv so it probably wouldn't be that effective of a method.  again, good thought though.