A 63-year-old man who was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 has been named as the fourth patient to be cured of the condition, following stem cell treatment to cure leukaemia he later developed.
His doctors decided a bone marrow transplant could be used to treat his cancer, and used a donor who had a rare genetic variant of the gene that codes for the protein CCR5 that made them immune to HIV infection. This has stopped HIV from being able to enter 'City of Hope' patient's cells and his doctors reported at the Aids 2022 conference in Montreal, Canada that he is still in remission from both HIV and cancer 17 months after treatment, the BBC and others report.
