Despite this, AIDS experts reported on Wednesday that a fourth person had been “cured” of HIV. However, the risky operation for patients who were also facing cancer may not provide much solace for the tens of millions of people who are HIV positive globally.
The 66-year-old man, known as the “City of Hope” patient after the Californian facility where he received treatment, was told he was in remission ahead of the International AIDS Conference, which starts on Friday in Montreal, Canada.
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After experts reported in February that a US lady known as the New York patient had also entered remission, he is the second individual to be officially declared to have been cured this year.
Similar to patients in Berlin and London before him, the City of Hope patient experienced a long-lasting remission from the virus following a bone marrow transplant to cure cancer.
Five men may have been cured, with one more guy, the Duesseldorf patient, previously reported to have achieved remission.
Because the most recent patient was the oldest to yet to achieve remission, Jana Dickter, an infectious disease specialist at the City of Hope, told AFP that his accomplishment could be encouraging for older HIV patients who also have cancer.
The patient-related research, which was presented at a pre-conference in Montreal but hasn’t been peer-reviewed, is led by Dickter.
Agence France-Presse
