Doctors Claim HIV-Positive Man Cured by Stem Cell Transplant

[bod]

There’s an estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, and
now doctors believe one of them may have been cured of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2007, the medical journal Blood reported.

Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV-positive American living in Germany, had leukemia and was undergoing chemotherapy, when he received a transplant of stem cells from a donor carrying a rare, inherited gene mutation that seems to make carriers virtually immune to HIV infection.

The transplant appeared to wipe out both diseases, giving hope to doctors, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has been studying HIV/AIDS for almost 30 years, said while this is an interesting proof of concept, it’s absurdly impractical.

“It’s hard enough to get a good compatible match for a transplant like this,” Fauci told FoxNews.com, “But you also have to find compatible donor that has this genetic defect, and this defect is only found in 1 percent of the Caucasian population and zero percent of the black population. This is very rare.”

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[stevie1ball]

If this is the road to eradicating HIV/AIDS then what a fantastic boost to the medical system.

I hope if this does prove to be the cure or possible cure that it is used in these African Countries to reduce the birth of children born with the disease due to the sexual nature of the people and the total disregard for safe sex.

 

[TheCheekyMonkey]

lucky git.

 

[skinz]

If this is the road to eradicating HIV/AIDS then what a fantastic boost to the medical system.

I hope if this does prove to be the cure or possible cure that it is used in these African Countries to reduce the birth of children born with the disease due to the sexual nature of the people and the total disregard for safe sex.

“It’s hard enough to get a good compatible match for a transplant like this,” Fauci told FoxNews.com, “But you also have to find compatible donor that has this genetic defect, and this defect is only found in 1 percent of the Caucasian population and zero percent of the black population. This is very rare.”

Well I think they have there work cut out since this gentic defect and compatibilty of donor is not found in the the black population - hopefully this is a start though in the right direction