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Docs discuss case of 3rd person cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
A woman in New York City who has no detectable HIV after undergoing a new type of stem cell transplant may represent another rare cure, researchers reported February 15 at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.The woman, who has leukemia, received a combination of umbilical cord blood cells with a rare mutation that blocks HIV entry and partially matched adult stem cells from a relative. She stopped antiretroviral therapy three years after the transplant, and 14 months later her viral load remains undetectable.