In the long human struggle against HIV, two more patients have emerged from stem cell transplants for cancer with no detectable virus in their bodies — bringing the total of documented cases to thirteen. The younger, a 21-year-old from Kansas City, and the other, a German man navigating both HIV and hepatitis B, each endured serious complications before arriving at what researchers cautiously call remission or cure. These cases do not offer a scalable answer to a global epidemic, but they deepen our understanding of how the immune system, given the right genetic conditions, might be taught to
Two New Stem Cell Transplant Cases Expand HIV Cure Count to 13
Both patients experienced serious complications including infections and graft-versus-host disease from the transplant procedures.