Scott Gyrrr Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection. link If it's anything more than just a one off case then this is amazing news. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sandoz Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 yes it appears to be true and many years have passed since his transplant, appears to still be negative. however we can't start doing BMTs on everyone with HIV infection! a more feasible cure is needed (inexpensive, low risk of associated side effects, accessible to everyone including resource-poor countries etc etc). exciting for sure, but unfortunately not the answer to the pandemic. one of my previous patients has the delta 32 mutation and remained healthy without taking antiretrovirals. she's now in college and doing amazingly well. the specific mutation is fascinating to read about; it's thought that europeans with this specific mutation were fit to survive the plague back in the 1300s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 There was a "Secrets of the Dead" about some village in Britain where many of the inhabitants had that mutation and thus survived the plague. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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