- A stem cell transplant has rid a man of HIV, making him the second person to be declared cured of the virus.
- The transplant used stem cells that contained a unique mutation that works against HIV.
- Doctors are optimistic but warn that this treatment isn’t a magic bullet for all HIV patients.
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A 40-year-old HIV patient has been declared cured after a promising treatment has left him with no active virus. The man, Adam Castillejo, was the subject of extensive research in early 2019 after doctors failed to find HIV in his body over an 18-month period after previously being diagnosed in 2003.
Castillejo, known by the nickname “London Patient” lived with the disease for many years, taking medicine to manage it since 2012. That same year he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and later endured a bone marrow transplant. That operation may have ultimately cured him of HIV, and appears to have made him only the second person to ever be cured of the disease that causes AIDS.
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