The director of the Centre for HIV/AIDS Research Program in South Africa has expressed optimism that the pandemic will be cured in the next five to ten years. "I am optimistic that we will be able to see a cure in the next five to ten years because we will be further ahead on that front due to the combination of antiretrovirals and...
A researcher in Germany has confirmed the fifth case of HIV cure in a 53-year-old patient, nicknamed "the Dusseldorf patient" to protect his identity. According to abc7chicago, the details of the successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, but at that time it was not possible to...
A team of American scientists announced, this Tuesday (15), that they have cured the first woman of HIV infection, after a stem cell transplant - also called a bone marrow transplant. Similar procedures had already been performed three other times, some successfully and some not, to cure patients infected with HIV skin virus, which causes the...