The 'London patient' has had undetectable levels of HIV for 18 months.
A second person has gone into remission from HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant, doctors have announced.
The London patient is only the world’s second person to go into remission from HIV. The first, Timothy Ray Brown—previously known as the"Berlin Patient"—received a similar but more aggressive form of treatment for his leukemia. In 2007, Brown received a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from a donor with two genetic copies of the CCR5 receptor, then had another transplant a year later following a relapse.
Eduardo Olavarria, one of the study co-authors, said: “While it is too early to say with certainty that our patient is now cured of HIV, and doctors will continue to monitor his condition, the apparent success of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation offers hope in the search for a long-awaited cure for HIV/AIDS."
“If we can understand better why the procedure works in some patients and not others, we will be closer to our ultimate goal of curing HIV. At the moment the procedure still carries too much risk to be used in patients who are otherwise well, as daily tablet treatment for HIV is usually able to maintain patient's long-term health.”
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