The First Woman in the World Has Seemingly Been Cured of HIV
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). One of the biggest announcements to come from this year’s conference, CROI 2022, is that a woman being called “the New York patient” has been essentially cured of HIV.
She is also the first known woman to be medically cured of HIV, according to report by NBC News.This latest patient joins three men who have already seemed to have been cured of HIV.
There have also been two known cases of women whose immune systems have apparently eradicated the virus on their own. Experts say the key to these medically-aided “cures,” however, is connected to stem cell transplants.
The first such case involved an American man living with HIV, Timothy Ray Brown, who was also being treated for acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
