You recall the "Berlin Patient"? Timothy Brown is the first person who was apparently cured of HIV after being treated with a bone marrow transplant for leukemia. These two patients bear similarities and differences to him, but both appear to be free of HIV, several weeks after stem-call tlherapy.
Both patients, who were treated in Boston and had been on long-term drug therapy to control their HIV, received stem-cell transplants after developing lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. Since the transplants, doctors have been unable to find any evidence of HIV infection, Timothy Henrich of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston told an International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur.
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