A man who has had HIV since the 1980s had a bone marrow transplant from a donor resistant to the virus.
A man who has lived with HIV since the 1980s seems to have been cured in only the fourth such case, say doctors.
Many of his friends died from HIV in the era before antiretroviral drugs could give people a near-normal life expectancy.Human immunodeficiency virus damages the body's immune system. This can lead to Aids and the body struggling to fight off infection. However, some people, including the donor, have CCR5 mutations that bolt the door shut and keep out HIV.The City of Hope patient was closely monitored after the transplant, and levels of the HIV became undetectable in his body."We were thrilled to let him know that his HIV is in remission and he no longer needs to take antiretroviral therapy that he had been on for over 30 years," said Dr Jana Dickter, an infectious diseases doctor at City of Hope.
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