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Can AIDS be cured? Plans to stop treatment in an HIV positive person - to determine whether the virus has been eradicated - have been delayed a year, AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho reported Wednesday. Ho, who heads the project at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, had proposed to stop combination drug treatment in patients in whom HIV has been suppressed for two to two-and-a-half years. At a news conference in Washington, Ho said that his patients have not yet been asked to stop therapy in order to test the theory that AIDS could be curable. He explained that the delay was due to additional findings that suggest that HIV could hide in some tissues and reinfect the body if drug therapy is stopped. (CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse 1/23/97)