A UK patient's HIV has become "undetectable" following a stem cell transplant - in only the second case of its kind, doctors report. The London patient, who was being treated for cancer, has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no longer taking HIV drugs. The male London patient, who has not been named, was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 and advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2012. Researchers from University College London, Imperial College London, Cambridge and Oxford Universities were all involved in the case. But he added: "The treatment is not appropriate as a standard HIV treatment because of the toxicity of chemotherapy, which in this case was required to treat the lymphoma."

Source: The Star March 05, 2019 12:00 UTC