629920login-checkPatient Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant, Researchers Say |
He is at least the third person cured in this way, which would likely be too risky for patients who don’t also have cancer
A 53-year-old man diagnosed with HIV in 2008 is now free of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant, researchers reported Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
The German man, known as “the Düsseldorf patient,” is the third confirmed person to be cured of HIV using this treatment, the authors write. Last year, researchers announced that two additional patients had recovered from the virus—including, importantly, a woman of mixed race—but papers on these patients have not been published yet, according to the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Read more in Smithsonian Magazine.
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