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There are now 5 people on the planet who have been cured of HIV.
The "Dusseldorf patient", as a 53-year-old German man is identified, has been confirmed as the fifth person to be cured of HIV.
"It's really a cure, and not just, you know, long-term remission," says Dr. Bjorn-Erik Ole Jensen, who detailed the case in Nature Medicine. The man, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2008, stopped taking medication HIV four years ago and today he has no detectable virus in his body.
As in the other cases, his cure is related to a stem cell transplant, Hill reports. This is a dangerous procedure that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and was performed in the case of patients in Berlin and London to treat the patients' cancer.
A cure, not a cure.
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The 53-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was diagnosed with HIV in 2008.
Three years later he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a life-threatening form of blood cancer.
In 2013 he underwent a bone marrow transplant using stem cells from a woman donor with a rare mutation in her CCR5 gene.
It was found that the mutation prevents HIV from entering the cells.
The patient said in a statement that he was "proud of my global team of doctors who managed to cure me of HIV - and at the same time, of course, of leukemia."
He said he celebrated the 10th anniversary of his transplant "in a big way" on Valentine's Day last week, adding that the donor was the "guest of honour".
The first patient to recover from AIDS, known as the "Berlin Patient", chose to be exposed and today it is known that this is Timothy Ray Brown, who died three years ago from the cancer he contracted.
The second patient who is still under the name "The Patient from London" said in an interview conducted by the New York Times that "I feel that I have a responsibility to help the doctors understand how this happened to me so that they can continue to develop the science behind it. He further added that when he realized that the treatment he received might help him recover as well He felt a "shock" from both cancer and AIDS and that it was "surreal" for him: "I never thought there would be a cure for my disease in my lifetime." The recoveries of two more people with HIV and cancer were announced at various scientific conferences last year, although research on these cases has not yet been published.
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