Six years ago the world: scientists had healed a man using stem cell HIV. Now scientists claim that two other people have no trace of HIV in their blood. they do not have AIDS anymore?
Arts microbiologist Dr. Anne Wensing UMC Utrecht presented the results yesterday at the International AIDS Conference in Durban. Even with highly sensitive equipment HIV is no longer to be found in the bloodstream. This is remarkable.
At this time, HIV-infected patients receive one or a few pills per day which the virus is suppressed lifelong. Through just take blood tests doctors often no HIV in the blood longer, but over sensitive blood test though. The two European HIV patients after stem cell lacks any trace of HIV.
Still, it is to be euphoric too early. “A needle found in a haystack is a big job, but it is a much greater challenge to demonstrate that there is no needle in a haystack,” says Wensing. “When you know a hundred percent sure that no more HIV virus is in the body?”
Stop Treatment
The only way to find out is when a patient stops the treatment. therefore remains the virus really gone or will return it back? Wensing: “Stop HIV treatment is violent if someone shortly after a stem cell has a fragile health.” In 2013, there were two American HIV patients in whom there was no longer found HIV after a stem cell transplant. When she later stopped taking medication, the virus hit up again. The scientists used this knowledge in the two European patients, which is searched more intensively for traces of HIV.
The only cure HIV patient is
Currently still a solitary man cured of HIV. The patient was treated in 2007. He had besides HIV namely also had acute myeloid leukemia. This form of leukemia the immune system turns off. The man received chemotherapy followed by a stem cell transplant. He also received medicines that suppress the immune system to ensure that the stem cells would not be rejected. The patient took his medicine to inhibit HIV no longer. After 38 months, there was no HIV-infected cell to be found.
“This new cases may lead to a new treatment for HIV and ultimately even lead to its disappearance”
What is the name of the game? Why is this patient be cured? Universities and institutions currently stabbing much time and money in researching HIV cure. “We now have a particular need for thorough investigation,” Wensing continues. “That will hopefully provide new insights on how things stabbing each other. That kind examine a patient in the short term not much, but just with more knowledge we move forward. “
Precious
A major problem with stem cell transplantation is that it is too expensive to cure all HIV patients. “But these new cases may lead to a new treatment for HIV and ultimately even lead to its disappearance,” said Kevin Robert Frost, CEO of amfAR, an organization that helped in the past stem cell transplants in HIV patients. More research and more time will have to make clear whether we really “cure” to speak
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