2nd Patient in the world to be cured of AIDS virus

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Is HIV AIDS CURABLE?


Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) affects almost 36.9 million people on this planet. According to World Health Organization (WHO), 21.7 million people were receiving antiretroviral treatment by end of 2017. That is approximately 59% of people  living with HIV are receiving antiretroviral treatment in 2017.
Over the years new medial treatments were developed to prolong the life of AIDS patients. Unlike years when sustaining the life of an HIV patient would be nearly possible, in today's generation these patients continue to live long and healthy lives.
An HIV patient in LONDON has just given testimony to this fact as he has become the second known adult in the world to be cured of AIDS virus. The man who resides in Britain received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor.
This comes 12 years after an American man called Timothy Brown became the  first known person to have functional cure of HIV in Germany in 2007. He became known as 'Berlin patient' and since then has moved to the United States. International media reported that according to HIV experts he continues to remain HIV free.

The second 'London patient' got free of the virus which  calls for regular self tests three years after receiving bone marrow stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resist HIV infection.
Almost 18 months after being treated with antiretroviral treatment, highly sensitive test display no signs of the man's previous HIV infection. Professor and HIV biologist at University college  London Ravindra Gupta, who co-led a team of doctors treating the man said that there was no virus that they could measure.

Though the case has been cautiously reported to be "too premature" to be declared a cure, the patient continues to remain in remission without drugs.
Reference: World Health Organization (WHO) reports and Indiatimes reports.

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