There is good news for HIV AIDS patients. On Thursday, a team of doctors announced that a 60-year-old German man will be completely free from HIV disease due to stem cell transplant. With this, this person will become the seventh person in the world who has been cured of HIV disease. Such cases will prove to be an important milestone in the global fight against the virus.
International AIDS conference to be held in Munich
Actually, next week the International AIDS Conference is going to be held in Munich. Before this, it is a big deal to get such success. The researcher working on this disease said that this is a big deal and at the same time we have got the hope that we can completely cure the patient of this disease. This HIV patient had both HIV and aggressive leukemia. Therefore, cell transplant proves to be dangerous for such people. But still we took the risk and did the transplant. This person from Germany has expressed his wish not to reveal his identity. He is being called the ‘Next Berlin Patient’.
The original Berlin patient was named Timothy Ray Brown
The name of the original Berlin patient was Timothy Ray Brown. Timothy was declared HIV-free in 2008. He was the first person. But Timothy died in 2020 due to cancer. Now the person who was completely cured of this disease came to know about HIV in 2009. After this, bone marrow transplant was done in 2015 due to leukemia. For your information, let us tell you that there is a risk of death up to 10 percent in this. During this treatment, the entire immunity of the person is replaced.
For your information, let us tell you that it took 6 years for this German man to beat both HIV and cancer. According to the doctors of Berlin’s Charity University Hospital, whatever reports have come, it is clear that the patient has recovered but it is not completely sure yet. However, it is hoped that this person will definitely get rid of HIV. As you know, the chances of survival in a disease like AIDS are very low.
According to the records till now only 6 people have been completely cured from this disease. If this person also gets cured then he will be the 7th person who has been completely cured. According to the researchers, if this is successful then in the coming time this treatment will prove to be very effective for AIDS patients.
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