Has a sixth person been cured of HIV?

NIAID scientists studying the human immune response to HIV
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A European man has been in remission from an HIV infection for almost two years, leading to the possibility that he will be the sixth person cured of HIV. He received a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer.

All six patients underwent a stem cell transplant before the surprising results. The man, dubbed “The Geneva Patient” to protect his privacy, is the first to get a transplant from a donor without a rare genetic abnormality. The gene generates resistance to HIV in human immune cells targeted by the virus.

The man, in his 50s, was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 and began antiretroviral treatment in 2005. He was diagnosed with rare blood cancer in 2018 and underwent radiation and chemotherapy.

People with HIV who do not also have cancer are not eligible for stem cell treatment since it is…

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