We've seen several breakthroughs in HIV treatment this year — early treatment "functionally cured" a child and helped fourteen adults go off HIV drugs — and now researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital have discovered another advancement. At the International AIDS society conference, Timothy Henrich described how two men with longstanding HIV infections received bone marrow transplants that appear to have removed all traces of the virus from their blood, allowing them to go off medication. One man became infected with HIV in the early years of the disease's epidemic while the other contracted it as a baby, and both were receiving the bone marrow transplant to battle. At this point, it's been seven weeks and four months,...
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