Crucial Role of Early Intervention in Achieving HIV Remission
Early treatment correlates with post-treatment infection control, hinting at a potential window for promoting HIV remission.
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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 patient's 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 Institut Pasteur and IciStem.