A 53-year-old man from Germany has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2014, according to findings published Monday in Nature Medicine, as researchers say he is the fifth to be cured of the virus – which affects more than 30 million people worldwide – after receiving the procedure.
The man – referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” – has no detectable traces of the HIV virus, researchers said Monday, and stopped taking his HIV medication in 2019.Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, the doctor of the patient, reported that the man had no signs of active HIV during a conference in 2019 – although he did not declare the virus “in remission”.
Jensen noted that the virus is “really cured” and not in “long-term remission” in an interview with ABC News. More than 40 million people have died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s.
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