PARIS — A HIV-positive man in remission may be the first patient effectively cured of the illness without needing a bone marrow transplant, researchers said Tuesday in a potential breakthrough.
HIV affects tens of millions of people globally and while the disease is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, patients need to take medication for life.
He has now gone more than 57 weeks with no HIV treatment and he continues to test negative for HIV antibodies. "We're not able to detect the virus and he's losing the specific response to the virus -- if you don't have antibodies then you don't have antigens."Diaz's findings were released as part of the first-ever all-virtual International AIDS Conference, held online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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