PORTAL LEBAK – A leukemia patient in the United States (USA) has become the first woman and the third person to date who healed from HIV after receiving transplant stem cells.
The woman received from a donor who is naturally resistant, to the virus that causes it AIDSas researchers reported on Tuesday, February 16, 2022.
The case of a middle-aged woman of mixed race, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Denver, USA.
It is also the first case involving cord blood, a new approach that could create treatment and cure for more people.
Since receiving cord blood, to treat her acute myeloid leukemia – a cancer that forms in blood-forming cells in the bone marrow – the woman has been in remission or virus-free for 14 months.
Finally the woman underwent a recovery without requiring potent treatment HIVknown as antiretroviral therapy.
The two previous cases of a male – one white and one Latino – had received stem cells adults, which is more often applied in transplant Bone marrow.
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“This is currently the third report of a cure in this series, and the first in a woman living with HIVsaid the President-elect of International AIDS Society, Sharon Lewin, reported by PortalLebak.com from Reuters.
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