A 66-year-old man was diagnosed with HIV in 1988. It just got cured.
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest LGBTQ newsExperts say that this is not a viable treatment for the vast majority of people living with HIV.
The procedure requires bone marrow from a small group of people with a specific mutated form of the CCR5 protein. Bone marrow transplants are also potentially fatal.Still, researchers said that the treatment can help further understanding of how the virus functions.“While a transplant is not an option for most people with HIV, these cases are still interesting, still inspiring and illuminate the search for a cure,” University of Melbourne infectious disease specialist Dr.
Sharon Lewin said during a press call.The City of Hope patient was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 and is the person who has been living with HIV the longest to receive the treatment.
He was at one pointed diagnosed with AIDS before he started taking some of the earliest antiretroviral medications in the 1990s.In 2018, he was diagnosed with blood cancer and he received the bone marrow transplant to treat that cancer, as well as chemotherapy.
