Brit man becomes the second person EVER to be ‘cured’ of HIV after a stem cell transplant
A HIV-positive Brit has become the second person in the world to be declared in remission of the AIDS virus.
The only other person to have been "cured" from HIV was the so-called 'Berlin patient' Timothy Ray Brown. According to experts, Brown is still HIV-free. Professor Gupta said the Brit man had contracted HIV in 2003 before being diagnosed with blood cancer Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2012. The transplant helped the London patient's immune system, with his body adopting the donor's mutation and HIV resistance.While his treatment did go smoothly, he did suffer a period of “graft-versus-host” disease - a condition in which donor immune cells attack the recipient’s immune cells.
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