A patient from Marseille, diagnosed with HIV in 1999, was declared in remission from HIV after undergoing a bone marrow transplant. This would be a first in France and the eighth case in the world.
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The case of this patient, aged around sixty, opens up new research perspectives to fight AIDS. Followed at the Sainte-Marguerite hospital in Marseille, she was declared in remission after an allogeneic bone marrow transplant performed five years ago. This would be the first case of cure for HIV in France. The eighth case in the world.
-Diagnosed with HIV in 1999, the sixty-year-old had “developed acute myeloid leukemia in 2020”explained the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, in a press release. The AP-HM specifies, however, that this case is not “generalizable to all patients affected by HIV due to the burden of treatments associated with allograft”.
Professor Sylvie Bregigeon who directs the Information and Care Center for Human Immunodeficiency and Viral Hepatitis (CISIH), where this patient is being followed, and Doctor Olivia Eaegel-Faucher detail these results to the press this Monday January 20. Follow the healthcare team conference live on France 3 Provence-Alpes.
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