A German man has become the third person ever to be effectively “cured” of HIV thanks to a stem cell transplant.
His breakthrough case was first announced in 2019, but it wasn’t until Monday that researchers confirmed he was indeed HIV-free.
, the 53-year-old had undergone a stem cell transplant in 2013 to cure leukemia he’d been diagnosed with two years prior. However, as luck would have it, the cells came from a donor with a mutation that disables the CCR5 receptor that HIV uses to infect immune cells. This effectively made him immune to the disease like an inadvertent AIDS vaccine.A German patient has become the third person to ever be cured of HIV via stem cell transplant.
“I think we can get a lot of insights from this patient and from these similar cases of HIV cure,” said Jensen. “We can now confirm that it is fundamentally possible to prevent the replication of HIV on a sustainable basis by combining two key methods.”
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