Is the cure for HIV / AIDS at hand?

A new breakthrough in research to treat HIV / AIDS patients has just happened, making the world medical community stir.

Doctors in Barcelona and Spain claim they have found a cure for HIV-AIDS century disease. If it is true, this is great news for more than 34 million people suffering from this century's disease.

A 37-year-old man from Barcelona was cured after being infected with HIV in 2009.

Doctors in Barcelona have discovered a cure after performing a blood transfusion test from the placenta of subjects who are able to resist HIV virus in the patient's body. Specifically, CCR5 is a gene that completely prevents the development of HIV virus.

Although 3 years later, this man died from cancer, the hospital team did not stop researching and developing his healing method.

And their research has achieved unexpected results

In February 2007, Timothy Ray Brown patient had HIV positive test results. And today, March 2016, tests show that he has absolutely no signs of HIV infection anymore.

Timothy Brown, the only man cured of HIV.

This patient from Berlin, Germany was the first person in history to successfully cure the HIV / AIDS disease after having a bone marrow transplant twice for leukemia using the subject's part. - first in 2007 and the second in 2008.

German doctors then tested the application of the same method to their other six patients but unfortunately these patients died within a year for various reasons. After this unfortunate test, doctors confidently affirmed that they could develop an HIV vaccine using this CCR5 gene.

Although it can be applied to both HIV-infected patients and to prevent disease, this vaccine is not really a cure when only preventing the development and reproduction of HIV virus.

Although they have not found effective drugs to treat this devastating disease, scientists have concluded that the key to HIV / AIDS treatment is definitely in the genome. Especially, gene grafting technology using CRISPR / Cas9 method is being developed strongly recently.

With improvements in gene regulation technology, a real remedy to cure HIV disease seems to be within reach of humans.