In Germany, HIV man who received stem cell transplant is healthy

The 53-year-old man had a stem cell transplant in 2014, according to Forbes, a US media outlet in Nature Medicine. Since 2019, he has been off his HIV medication. Researchers report that people who have received stem cell transplants have no detectable traces of the HIV virus.

 
The patient's doctor. Björn-Erik Ole Jensen said his patient had no symptoms of active HIV since 2019. However, it is not yet time to declare him completely healthy.

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  Timothy Ray Brown was the first to be cured of HIV. Apart from this, three more recovered in 2019. All four have undergone stem cell transplants. Dr. Björn-Erik Ole Jensen said, "I think the well-being of these five people will encourage us to use safer methods."
   In 2021, the United Nations reported that about 38 million people worldwide have HIV. Among them 36.7 million adults along with 1.3 million children below 15 years of age.

 
HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is one such virus, which attacks the body's immune system and if not treated, it turns into AIDS. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no effective cure for this malware.
 
Although there is no cure for the virus, some researchers are beginning to use stem cell transplants as a treatment. Forbes said that it is getting great results.