According to researchers, umbilical cord blood was used to treat acute myeloid leukemia. Since then this woman remained free from HIV virus for 14 months. He was not given any HIV treatment. Earlier in the case of two men, HIV was treated with adult stem cells, which are often used in bone marrow transplants.
Sharon Levin, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, said in a statement that this is the third reported treatment in this setting and the first in a woman living with HIV.
The case is part of a study led by Dr. Yvonne Bryson of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. It aims to follow 25 people living with HIV who receive stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood for transplants to treat cancer and other serious diseases.
Under the trial, patients first have to undergo chemotherapy. Doctors then transplant stem cells from people with specific genetic mutations. Scientists believe that after this the immune system for HIV develops in the patient.
Sharon Levin said that a bone marrow transplant is not a viable strategy to cure most people living with HIV. But the report ‘confirms that HIV is curable’. Studies show that transplanting cells that fight HIV is the most important. Earlier scientists believed that it had side effects. However, this new technology has given hope for the treatment of HIV, but it cannot be said how long this method will be in common use.
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