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Successful HIV-Resistant Stem Cell Transplant
Has a possible cure for HIV been found?
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first discovered at The Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1983. Has a cure at last been found?
A revolutionary medical case study was published in Nature Medicine publication, on the 20th of February 2023, about a possible cure for HIV.
A 53-year-old German man referred to as the “Düsseldorf patient,” for privacy reasons, made medical history by getting cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant. The man’s bone marrow was replaced with HIV-resistant donor stem cells in a risky surgical procedure.
According to an article in the Washington Post, the man was “monitored for more than nine years after the 2013 transplant.” The man stopped antiretroviral therapy in 2018 and has since “remained free of HIV.”
According to an article in Everyday Health, by Lisa Rappaport, the man is the 5th person to “have no detectable levels of HIV in their body” after receiving a stem cell transplant as part of cancer treatment.
Has a possible cure for HIV been found? Is it a too-risky procedure at the moment? These are questions milling in the background.
