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Doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital<\/span><\/a> say it is too soon to call it a “cure”, but they have seemingly eradicated two patients of HIV.<\/p>\n

How did they do it?\u00a0 With bone marrow transplants.\u00a0 The two patients had the virus for roughly 30 years.\u00a0 They both developed a type of cancer which required a bone marrow transplant.\u00a0 After the transplant, HIV was not detectable in either patient.\u00a0 One patient has been seemingly HIV free for 2 years and the other for 4 years!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Bone marrow is the place where new blood cells are made and is believed to be a reservoir for HIV.\u00a0 Both of these patients have since stopped taking their anti-retroviral drugs.<\/p>\n

“We have not demonstrated cure, we’re going to need longer follow-up.”, says Dr. Timothy Henrich.\u00a0 “What we can say is if the virus does stay away for a year or even two years after we stopped the treatment, that the chances of the virus rebounding are going to be extremely low.<\/p>\n

Dr. Henrich states that the virus could still be hiding inside brain tissue or the gastrointestinal track.<\/p>\n

Timothy Brown, aka the “Berlin patient”, is thought to be the first individual cured of AIDS.\u00a0 He received a bone marrow transplant from a rare donor who was resistant to HIV.<\/p>\n

Dr. Michael Brade, the medical director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, stated that even though it is too early to say a “cure” has been found, “the case suggests that what happened to Timothy Brown, the Berlin Patient was perhaps not a one-off”.<\/p>\n

And that’s what’s good,<\/p>\n

Jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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