A man treated with a new drug mix may be the first to be cured of HIV infection without the need for a bone marrow transplant, as happened to the only two other people known to whom the virus was eradicated. The 'patient from Sao Paulo' case was described at the AIDS 2020 conference. The man, experts from the Federal University of Sao Paulo explain, stopped treatment in March 2019 and the virus has so far not returned. The patient, 36 years old, HIV positive since 2012, participated in the experimentation of a therapy aimed at 'flushing out' the virus from the 'reservoirs' that he has in the cells and which make him return if the usual treatments are stopped.
Aids: with a one year virus-free mix of men's drugs
2020-07-09T18:53:31.527Z
For experts, perhaps the first case of healing without transplantation (ANSA)A man treated with a new drug mix may be the first to be cured of HIV infection without the need for a bone marrow transplant, as happened to the only two other people known to whom the virus was eradicated. The 'patient from Sao Paulo' case was described at the AIDS 2020 conference. The man, experts from the Federal University of Sao Paulo explain, stopped treatment in March 2019 and the virus ha...