A male patient in the UK has been in remission from HIV for 18 months since stopping antiretroviral drugs, leading some to say he's the second person effectively cured of the viral infection
A second person has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1, according to a case study published Tuesday in the journal Nature. Some scientists believe that the"London patient" has been effectively cured of the viral infection, which affects close to 37 million people worldwide.
Another group of researchers said Wednesday that a third patient also may have cleared an HIV infection. Evidence of a"Düsseldorf patient" was presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, alongside the report on the London patient. This third case study has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
"There are actually many strategies right now that are currently being pursued," Henrich said."Some of them are directly related to the Berlin patient and work with transplantation: for example, gene modification therapy."Scientists are also examining immune modifying therapies."I am an optimist because I'm a scientist and vice versa," Henrich said."I do have hope.
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