Cancer leads scientists to discover cure for HIVResearchers are inching closer to a possible cure for HIV as a second patient was declared HIV-free after undergoing a bone marrow transplant. He underwent the bone marrow transplant and later was declared free of HIV. The man, nicknamed The London Man, was said to have contracted the HIV virus in 2003. Four years later, doctors gave him a bone marrow transplant, and luckily for him, his donor for the marrow had natural immunity to HIV. Bone marrow transplantBrown, apart from being HIV-positive, had leukemia and had bone marrow transplant after chemotherapy proved futile.

Source: Standard Digital March 05, 2019 21:00 UTC