There’s new hope for people suffering from vision loss or dry macular degeneration thanks to drugs used to treat HIV. “This is a huge unmet medical need. There are no approved treatments for dry macular degeneration in America or anywhere. We desperately need treatments for all these people who are potentially going blind from this disease,” Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor of ophthalmology and director of the Center for Advanced Vision Science at the University of Virginia, said.