A case of a former HIV patient in Geneva is being highlighted in the scientific journal ‘Nature.’
The man had a bone marrow transplant 32 months ago – the virus is now undetectable.
He is now one of seven people worldwide who may have been cured of the infection, according to a press release from the Geneva University Hospital.
The other known cases had a transplant from donors who are known to have a genetic mutation which resists the HIV virus.
This patient received marrow from someone who didn’t have that mutation.
The researchers say this case opens up new paths of investigation into a possible cure.
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