He is one of a small handful of people to receive such treatment effectively
, including Timothy Ray Brown, who had a bone marrow transplant – also to treat leukemia – in Berlin in 2007, and Adam Castillejo, who was declared free of HIV in London in 2019.
Björn-Erik Jensen, the virologist who led the study at Düsseldorf University, said in a statement to Nature Medicine that the research “shows it’s not impossible – it’s just very difficult – to remove HIV from the body.” “The most important thing is that what we’ve learned from these studies is that if you make every cell resistant to HIV, the virus has got nowhere to go and eventually melts away,” she said.
The Düsseldorf patient marks the latest development in a disease that was once a deadly diagnosis. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine, it has become a manageable condition for those with access to medication.
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