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Solopos.com, SOLO-A woman in New York has been functionally cured of HIV. She is the third person to ever be cured and the first woman to recover from the virus.
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This woman recovered from HIV after receiving a rare but dangerous stem cell treatment to fight viruses and cancer. He received the dangerous stem cell treatment four years ago.
Citing pages Bisnis.com on Thursday (17/2/2022), the stem cells were considered to have cleared his body of viruses and cancer. Given how risky the treatment is, experts only recommend using it in cancer patients.
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After therapy, doctors couldn’t find replicable HIV cells in her body and cells from the person couldn’t be infected in a laboratory setting. The woman is also a patient with terminal leukemia cancer.
To perform this treatment, doctors must first find a donor who has a rare mutation that makes them immune to the virus.
Because these stem cell treatments can often result in the patient’s death, experts would not use them in otherwise healthy people who can manage their HIV through normal methods. Researchers say that there are up to 50 patients who can receive this procedure each year. The woman was diagnosed with HIV in 2013 and leukemia in 2017, making her a potential candidate.
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Despite stopping his HIV treatment more than a year ago, the virus has not resurfaced in him. Repeated scans of his body showed no HIV cells with the potential to replicate. If a few more years doctors still failed to find HIV in his body, and failed to infect his cells, then they would feel comfortable in declaring him ‘cured’ of the virus.
Meanwhile, researchers detected a highly lethal variant of HIV in the Netherlands. The findings are the result of a joint study by the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute (BID) and the Dutch HIV Monitoring Foundation. In the journal Science, an analysis of more than 100 HIV patients revealed that people infected with the variant, known as VB, had between 3.5 and 5.5 times higher levels of the virus in their blood. Meanwhile, this condition makes them more likely to transmit the virus.
According to the journal, as quoted from Bisnis.com, the VB variant also appears to cause a decrease in immune cells. As a result, people who are infected have the potential to spread AIDS much faster than people who are infected with other variants of HIV.
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However, the findings confirm that the new variant is curable like normal HIV and can be detected through the same diagnostic tests used for other HIV variants. A new variant of VB was detected through a project called Beehive, which aims to examine the relationship between HIV genetics and disease severity.
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