Seventh Person Cured of HIV Through Stem Cell Transplant, Second Without HIV-Resistant Cells
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Summary
A man has become the seventh person to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for blood cancer treatment. Significantly, he is the second of these seven patients who received stem cells that were not resistant to HIV, suggesting that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for a cure. This finding expands potential treatment options and provides hope for developing more accessible HIV cure strategies beyond the rare genetic mutation that confers HIV resistance.
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Significantly, he is also the second of the seven who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure.
“Seeing that a cure is possible without this resistance gives us more options for curing HIV,” says Christian Gaebler at the Free University of Berlin.
Five people have previously become free of HIV after receiving stem cells from donors who carried a mutation that makes them resistant to HIV.
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