The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukemia.
While the transplant was planned to treat the now-66-year-old's leukemia, the doctors also sought a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, a mechanism that first worked to cure the"Berlin patient", Timothy Ray Brown, in 2007.
As well as being the oldest, the patient has also had HIV the longest, having been diagnosed in 1988 with what he described as a"death sentence" that killed many of his friends.Doctors who presented the data ahead of the International Aids Society's 2022 meeting said the case opened up the potential for older patients with HIV and blood cancer to access the treatment, particularly as the stem cell donor was not a family member.
After the transplant three and a half years ago, which followed chemotherapy, the City of Hope patient stopped taking ART in March 2021. He has now been in remission from both HIV and leukemia for more than a year, the team said.
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