An HIV- positive man from London who contracted the virus in 2003 is now the world’s second man to cleared of AIDS after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor who is HIV-resistant.
Dr. Ravindra Gupta, an HIV biologist who was apart of the team that treated the man, said in a report that “there is no virus that we can measure. We can’t detect anything.”, three years after the man received the transplant and after 18 months of coming off of antiretroviral drugs.
The patient is the second HIV-positive patient to be cured of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. An American man underwent a similar treatment in 2007 and has been HIV-free since then.
Doctors and biologists who were apart of the published paper on the man’s transplant hope that the procedure could eradicate HIV and AIDS in the future.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/health/aids-cure-london-patient.html
