12:30 p.m. news – HIV: what we know about the cure of a patient in Marseille, a first in France

A first in France? HIV patient reportedly curedat the Sainte-Marguerite hospital in Marseille. In a press release published this Friday, January 17, the city’s university hospitals explain that this woman “could represent the first case of functional remission of HIV in France after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

This woman in her sixties was first diagnosed with HIV in 1999, then developed leukemia five years ago. To treat this blood cancer, she received a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a rare genetic mutationcalled Delta 32, which acts on a gene and prevents HIV from developing in cells.

Among the seven people who have already been healed worldwide, six have received this type of transplant. This French patient therefore no longer has a viral load linked to HIV, but additional tests will still be carried out by Parisian experts and by the team from the Human Immunodeficiency Information and Care Center in Marseille.

This advance, which cannot be generalized, because the treatment linked to the transplant is cumbersome, still opens new perspectives on the treatment of the virus.

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