Considered one of the viruses of our time for which there is no definitive cure, HIV kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, mainly from causing AIDS. Although we have reached important milestones in HIV treatment, this treatment is not yet complete It was successful with only a handful of people. Today there is another good news.

Scientists, thanks to HIV treatment another person recovered from the virus explained. The name of the patient who recovered from the HIV virus was shared as “City of Hope” due to the fact that the center where he was treated is in California. Patient, fourth patient recovering from HIV with treatment He was also the oldest patient to recover from HIV, at age 66.

A rare mutation in leukemia treatment contributed to her recovery from HIV:

City of Hope, the second patient to be cured of HIV this year, is undergoing the same cancer treatment as previous patients. with bone marrow transplant recovered. When diagnosed with leukemia, the man received stem cell therapy with a bone marrow transplant in 2019. The donor from whom the stem cell was collected does not have the CCR5 gene. a rare mutation existed. This mutation made people resistant to HIV.

Descriptions of the treated patient:

“When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, like many others, I thought it was a death sentence. I never thought I would live to see the day that I don’t have HIV.”

The patient has been infected with HIV for 31 years. longest time He also took the title of patient who had HIV and survived the virus. In addition, the fact that the treated patient is 66 years old can be a great source of hope for HIV patients, according to scientists.