AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been 'cured' of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide.
The 66-year-old man, named the"City of Hope" patient after the Californian center where he was treated, was declared in remission in the lead-up to the International AIDS Conference, which begins in Montreal, Canada on Friday.that a US woman dubbed the New York patient had also gone into remission.
Jana Dickter, an infectious disease specialist at the City of Hope, told AFP that because the latest patient was the oldest yet to achieve remission, his success could be promising for older HIV sufferers who also have cancer. from an unrelated donor with a rare mutation in which part of the CCR5 gene is missing, making people resistant to HIV.in March 2021 to stop taking antiretrovirals and has been in remission from both HIV and cancer since.
Steven Deeks, an HIV expert at the University of California, San Francisco who was not involved in the research, said the"first thing you do in a bone marrow transplant is you destroy your own immune system temporarily".Also announced at the AIDS conference was research about a 59-year-old Spanish woman with HIV who has maintained an undetectable viral load for 15 years despite stopping antiretroviral therapy.
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