Two more people escape the HIV virus

Researchers at Brigham and Boston Women's Hospital have found that, after a bone marrow transplant, two men have completely cleared the HIV virus in their blood.

This finding is significant, because it shows that when bone marrow transplantation for HIV patients is still done with antiviral therapy, the pathogen is completely destroyed.

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person in the world to be confirmed to have ceased AIDS.

"We hope HIV will disappear from the patient's serum, but it is surprising that HIV cannot be found in their body cells," said Dr. Timothy Henrich, one of the researchers. the man said.

"It shows that under the action of antiviral therapy, cells that help restore a patient's immune system seem to have avoided HIV infection."

The findings were introduced yesterday at the International Conference on HIV / AIDS taking place in the US capital. This story is similar to what happened to Timothy Ray Brown - the world's first person from HIV.

However, there are still important differences here. If in the case of Timothy Ray Brown, who used specially selected grafted cells from the donor, contained a gene mutation against HIV, these two new patients received only normal graft cells. . In addition, these two men (one in Boston, one in New York) continued to take antiviral drugs, and Ray Brown did not.

However, more research is needed to confirm that these two patients were completely cured.