HIV Cure

[gangadharan_nair]

Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient.”

He is the only person in history who has been treated successfully for HIV—and it is all thanks to stem cells. The case of a man in Berlin named Timothy Ray Brown was the first “functional cure”, in 2007.

For just the second time since the global epidemic began, a patient appears to have been cured of infection with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. On March 6, researchers from the UK reported that a stem-cell treatment had cleared a London patient’s body of the HIV virus. This is only the second instance in history when this has been achieved.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timot...

americansforcures.org/patie...

thewire.in/the-sciences/hiv...

[gangadharan_nair]

The London patient, who does not want to disclose his identity, received stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation of the CCR5 gene, making them HIV-resistant.

[makarim]

stem cell therapy may prove a boon for regenerating the beta cells of the pancreas. But this would be beyond the capacity of common man.