Doctors confirm: HIV / AIDS can be completely cured

By an unexpected method, the HIV virus can be removed. Is the future "saying no to condoms" coming true?

The question of HIV / AIDS - a century disease affecting the lives of 34 million people in the world - seems to have been answered. Because recently doctors in Barcelona (Spain) have confirmed that they can cure the disease.

The method they use is blood transfusion from the umbilical cord of a person with an HIV resistance gene. With this method, experts believe that the virus can be completely removed.

The news confirmed on television about research to find out how to treat HIV.

And in fact, it has been shown that they achieved unexpected results with a special patient. It was a 37-year-old man living in Barcelona. This person has been infected with HIV since 2009, now completely cured.

To achieve this result, the team focused on a technique that was applied to Timothy Brown, an American HIV patient with leukemia in 2007. Brown was implanted by doctors at Berlin hospital. bone marrow transplant from a donor to cure the blood cancer. For one thing, this person accidentally brought HIV-resistant genes, and when the cancer ended, it was when the HIV virus completely disappeared.

Timothy Brown, the man who happened to be on HIV treatment .

According to experts, the mutant gene CCR5 Delta 35 affects the proteins in white blood cells, thereby helping the body to be resistant to HIV. It is estimated that only 1% of the world population carries the CCR5 Delta 35 gene in humans.

At first, the doctors also tried to transplant the marrow for the Barcelona patient mentioned above, but unfortunately could not find the appropriate marrow. According to Catalan Cancer Institute's Rafael Duarte (Barcelona): "We believe that blood transfusions from the placenta will produce good results, because as with Brown's case, not only will the cancer disappear, nor will HIV." .

Of course, the blood here is not simply plugged in. Before the transfusion, the patient's entire blood cell will be destroyed, replaced by new cells carrying HIV-resistant genes. This is to ensure that the virus cannot attach to old cells.

Blood cells need to be destroyed before treatment, to prevent HIV from continuing to have a residence.

As a result, after 11 days, patients in Barcelona showed signs of recovery. After only 3 months, HIV also disappeared.

Although three years after being treated, this man died of cancer, but it was still a big enough success for the team to believe in a breakthrough technology in fighting the disease. century.

This method continues to be studied at the National Transplant Organization (Spain). And at the end of October 2016, this will be the milestone marking the first clinical trial in the world - umbilical cord transplantation for HIV patients with leukemia. According to Javier Martines, the virus researcher at the Irsicaixa Institute, this method is preferred for HIV patients with cancer , but it also brings hope to completely cure this evil disease.

Glad to say that if the research gives good results, the "three wolves" firms will probably not like this.