the patient”City of Hopeis the fifth in the world to be considered cured of HIV. The 66-year-old contracted the virus during an outbreak in 1988, making him the oldest person to go into remission. “I never imagined I would live long enough to be HIV-free“, he confides in the press release of the California hospital where he was treated. His remission was announced on July 27 at the 24th International AIDS Conference in Montreal.
Like his other four predecessors, the patient was suffering from a dangerously terminal cancer. He received a rare bone marrow transplant for his leukemia. the donor had a genetic mutation called CCR5 that makes the immune system resistant to key components of HIV. In 2019, two years after his transplant, the man stopped taking medication and the virus became undetectable in his body. Nevertheless, “we are not talking about a specific treatment…
Source: Le Figaro
