Doctors have apparently cured another person of HIV using a bone marrow transplant.
The success story is a 60-year-old man from Germany who was diagnosed with HIV in 2009.
Doctors at Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin performed the mans transplant.
A scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected H9 T cell.© IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
At the time, the patient decided to stay anonymous and was nicknamed the Berlin Patient.
This latest case has also chosen to go anonymous and has been dubbed the next Berlin Patient.
But to everyones surprise, the switch still worked.
The mans case waspresentedthis week at AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference.
So its possible that even one copy is enough to help eliminate its presence in someone already infected.
So these transplants will never become a widely used cure for HIV.
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