San Francisco man becomes first in history to be cured of AIDS

[Terminator X]

Timothy Ray Brown, a 45-year-old San Francisco man previously known to the medical community as “the Berlin patient,” has become the first person to ever be cured of AIDS.

After a stem cell bone marrow transplant, doctors say his HIV, the infection which causes AIDS, was eradicated.

His bone marrow donor was one of a very small percentage of people who are immune to HIV. He received a second bone marrow transplant after a resurgence of Leukemia, which he’s also since been cured of.

Doctors still aren’t exactly sure what part of his treatment allowed his body to purge the virus, but clinical trials are scheduled to begin in 2012.

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/san-francisco-man-becomes-first-in-history-to-be-cured-of-aids/

[Sasha]

some more info: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/90543/do-and-dont-get-excited-about-aids-cure/

some facts i remember when reports of this first surfaced, the man had the (what seemed then) terrible bad luck to get cancer while being HIV+.
since he had no hope to fight the disease with his own, already damaged, immune system he got some of the most extreme chemo therapy and radiation threatment one can have. this decimated his immune system till it didnt exist anymore leaving room for the new T-cells who formed from the bonemarow stemcells he got from the HIV immune donor.

so for now, if your HIV+ you can better try and live with the disease and suppress it with regular combination therapy than go through the immensely intense chemotherapy but it does give hope for the future.

[Dr Mindbender]

We need stem cell research to manufacture this HIV immune bone marrow.