A city charity has described the possibility of another person living with HIV being cured as “mind-blowing.”
Doctors have revealed a 66-year-old man, who has been living with HIV since the 1980s, has seemingly been 'cured' after a bone marrow transplant. The man, known as the “City of Hope” patient after the hospital where he received his treatment, is only the fourth such case in the world.
The man, who has been suffering from leukaemia for three years, was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus. The patient was closely monitored and levels of HIV became undetectable in his body. He has now been in remission for more than 17 months and has stopped taking HIV medication.
