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Two more men allegedly cured of HIV

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Two more men seem to have been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplants, according to news out of the International AIDS Conference.

This is in addition to Timothy Brown, who earlier underwent similar treatment that seemed to have removed HIV from his body. Researchers are preparing to study other HIV-positive people who have undergone bone marrow transplants to look for similar results.

The two men who were being treated at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for cases of cancer at different times. One of the men is in his 20s and was infected at birth, while the other man is in his 50s, and has been infected with HIV since the early 1980s. After each receiving bone marrow transplants, the men also remained on their antiretroviral medication regimens, according to NBC News. 

Within eight months of their respective transplant surgeries, it was discovered that the patients’ cells were replaced by cells from the HIV-negative bone marrow donors. The men also now show no signs of HIV in their DNA or RNA. Levels of HIV antibodies have also decreased.

Amazing.

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)

Source: gaywrites

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    I hope I’m reading this right but, two more men? Cured of HIV? So there is a cure now possibly?
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