04Mar/13

Have we cured HIV? Mississippi baby born with virus now healthy – The Week UK


The Week UK

Have we cured HIV? Mississippi baby born with virus now healthy
The Week UK
Timothy Ray Brown, known as the ‘Berlin patient’, recovered from HIV in 2007 after a series of treatments involving the destruction of his immune system and a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection. ·
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03Mar/13

HIV-positive baby cured with conventional drug therapy – RT


RT

HIV-positive baby cured with conventional drug therapy
RT
In 2007, a blood stem cell transplant using a donor that was naturally resistant to HIV with a rare gene mutation was applied to Brown, transferring the resistance. It is estimated that some 300,000 children were born worldwide with HIV in 2011, mostly
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