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Daniel Lawler

Seventh Person Likely 'Cured' Of HIV, Doctors Announce

The brutal bone marrow transplant that can "cure" HIV is only an option for patients who also have leukaemia (Credit: AFP)

A 60-year-old German man is likely the seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant, doctors announced on Thursday.

The painful and risky procedure is for people who have both HIV and aggressive leukaemia, so is not an option for almost all of the nearly 40 million people living with the deadly virus across the world.

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