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HIV/AIDS is a deadly disease terrifying the entire world. If the record of death of HIV infected patients is worked out, it will be considered one of the top three infectious diseases behind the fatality of a huge number of patients. No proper preventive vaccine of HIV has been found till date. But works are going on in the hope of easing the treatment procedures of HIV. The concept of nanotechnology has been taken into account in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Nanotechnology, combining with pharmacology, has been able to develop various innovative and interesting treatment procedures of HIV, be it diagnostic approach, identification, targeting, marking or even complete killing of HIV in the patient body. This review contains a list of nano based products, approaches, machineries and procedures to successfully treat HIV in the patients.