New hope for AIDS patients... A woman's recovery becomes the fourth case in the world
The Wall Street Journal reported that an American woman had recovered from AIDS, becoming the fourth person to be cured of the virus in the world.
The newspaper pointed out that the patient, who developed leukemia 4 years after being diagnosed with HIV, has not been on antiretroviral therapy since October 2020.
She added that the treatment came by transplanting her stem cells taken from her relative with a rare genetic mutation that prevents the virus from multiplying, and they also performed a cord blood transfusion for her from a newborn.
She stressed that this is the fourth case in the world that has achieved a medical victory over the disease.
Doctors expressed optimism about the patient's recovery, and treating physician Marshall Gillespie said: "Everything looks very encouraging."
American Timothy Ray Brown was the first person to be cured of immunodeficiency in 2007, but he died in 2020 of cancer.
Doctors also managed to defeat the virus in two patients in London and Dusseldorf.
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