In the US, a woman infected with HIV has made a full recovery.
Washington, HIV is a disease that is impossible to cure. People infected with this disease often die. This deadly disease is caused by infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus. For years, many scientists are constantly trying to find a cure for this disease. Meanwhile, news has been received that the scientists of America have got great success. US scientists have treated a woman infected with HIV with a new technique.
According to the information received, a woman infected with HIV in America has fully recovered. With this, she has become the first woman to be cured of a deadly disease like HIV. So far, only 3 people worldwide have been cured of HIV.
According to the news of the New York Times, researchers told that a stem cell transplant was done to treat HIV. The woman has been treated through this transplant. Actually, stem cells were donated by a person who had natural resistance against the HIV virus.
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Before this woman, only 2 people were completely cured of HIV. Timothy Ray Brown, known as The Burnill Patient, lived free of HIV for 12 years and died of cancer in 2020. In the year 2019, HIV positive Adam Castilejo was also successfully treated.
In a stem cell transplant, the umbilical cord (umbilical cord blood) was used. In this technique, there is no need to mix more umbilical cord stem cells with the donor. It is transplanted in the same way as the bone marrow transplant is done.
Let us tell you that in the year 2013, the woman was found to be HIV positive. After 4 years of this, she was suffering from blood cancer (leukemia). This woman was treated for leukemia through haplo-cord transplant. In which cord blood was taken from a partially matched donor. In this whole process, close relatives of the woman also donated blood to her to increase immunity.
The woman’s last transplant was done in the year 2017. In the last 4 years, the woman has been completely cured of blood cancer. At the same time, after 3 years of this transplant, doctors also stopped the treatment of his HIV. At the same time, till now the woman has not come under the grip of any virus again.