A US leukaemia patient is the first woman and so far third person to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported.
“Well, this, first of all, tells us or confirms that a cure is indeed possible, and scientists need to keep working to find a cure,” said Sharon Lewin, President-Elect of the International AIDS Society, Fox reports.
The case of a middle-aged multiracial woman, presented at the Denver Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, is also the first to use cord blood, a newer approach that could make the treatment accessible to more people. .
Since receiving cord blood to treat her acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow, the woman has been in remission and virus-free for 14 months without the need for strong antiviral treatments. HIV known as antiretroviral therapy.
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