German patient is seventh person cured of HIV
The man had received a stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukaemia on 2015.
A German man has become the seventh person to apparently be cured of HIV, researchers report.
The 60-year-old man, referred to as the ‘next Berlin Patient’, was treated with a stem cell transplant in October 2015 for acute myeloid leukaemia, researchers said.
He stopped taking the antiretroviral drugs needed to suppress HIV in September 2018, but has not developed any detectable levels of the AIDS-causing virus in the nearly six years since, researchers said.
“A healthy person has many wishes, a sick person only one,” the man, who has chosen to remain anonymous, said in a statement.
