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Early treatment correlates with post-treatment infection control, hinting at a potential window for promoting HIV remission.

Starting treatment early may promote long-term control of the HIV virus if treatment is not discontinued, finds a study.People living with HIV need to take antiretroviral treatment for life to prevent the virus from multiplying in their body. ...

A man entered long-term remission from HIV after a stem cell transplant, but unlike in previous, similar cases, the patients transplant donor did not carry an HIV-resistant gene variant.

A man designated as "the Geneva patient" is in long remission from HIV. He received a bone marrow transplant that does not have a known mutation to block the virus. His case was presented Thursday in Australia. This is the sixth person likely cured of the infection after receiving a bone bone transplant. The virus remains undetectable 20 months after the interruption of antiretroviral treatment in this patient followed at the University Hospitals of Geneva, in collaboration with the Inst...