Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus.
The researchers in Berlin said the man, who suffered from leukaemia and HIV, had shown no sign of either disease since the transplant carried out 20 months ago. Tests on the man’s bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clear.
The man had been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, that causes Aids, for more than a decade and also had leukaemia.
Source: BBC News, 13 November 2008
Chapter: AIDS :: 15 November 2008
