The information should be taken with a grain of salt before generalizing, but the result is there: a woman in her sixties would be in remission from HIV following a bone graft. The public hospitals of Marseille cautiously confirmed this: “We can already talk about remission of HIV infection and a potential case of cure” on a patient followed at Sainte-Marguerite hospital. She was diagnosed with HIV in 1999.
His antiretroviral treatments had succeeded in reducing his viral load “undetectable” ten years later, which was no cure. In 2020, the patient developed acute myeloid leukemia: a cancer affecting the blood and bone marrow cells.
It is a bone marrow transplant that will cure the patient. The donor has a rare genetic characteristic, a mutation affecting a gene, preventing him from contracting HIV. Since then, the virus has no longer been detected in his body. This is the eighth case in the world: hope for research.
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