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A patient at Geneva University Hospital is considered cured of HIV. This was made possible by a bone marrow transplant. Until now, only five people worldwide were considered cured of HIV infection after a bone marrow transplant.

The Geneva patient had been living with HIV since the early 1990s. To treat a particularly aggressive form of leukemia, he underwent a stem cell transplant in 2018. One month after the transplant, tests showed that the patient's blood cells had been completely replaced by those of the donor.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's great news! Five people world wide is still a very very small number, but it gives hope that in the future, maybe more could get such a treatment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

yeah very small compared to those who hasn't cured yet, but still a step towards the right path, love to see it