Man Officially Cured of HIV

[SuperPsyze]

Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease, though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed.


The treatment Brown underwent was aggressive: chemotherapy that destroyed the majority of his immune cells. Total body irradiation. Finally, a risky stem-cell transplant that nearly a third of patients don't survive—but that appears to have completely cured Brown of HIV.


http://gizmodo.com/5713498/man-officially-cured-of-hiv

http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1577949/

http://www.natap.org/2010/newsUpdates/berlin.pdf

I wasn't sure if I should post this in CE&P or Health and Wellbeing, but this is incredible news, I just had to share it with someone.

 

[Supersix]

It's interesting. A very expensive and difficult treatment, but interesting. I hope the research continues.

 

[Odyssey Number 5]

I've heard people say that the "cure" has been around for decades, but they were not releasing it because aids was/has often been thought of as a way to let "fags" die off, that and also just to control the numbers of the general population. Conspiracy theories aside, good news, none the less.

 

[Serenx55]

This is old news to be honest. I'm curious why there's a resurgence of this on the web. But yes, he got extremely lucky. The glycoprotein abnormality which cured him of HIV is found in only around 11% of Eastern European's and thats it. The virus cannot bind to this key receptor protein on the surface of T-cells which effectively make HIV ineffective and won't have any effect to the host. However he does still have it in him.

Now personally clearing a guy to get his immune system wiped while he's immuno-compromised with HIV is slightly difficult. Especially since you could be effectively killing him faster.

 

[Serenx55]

I've heard people say that the "cure" has been around for decades, but they were not releasing it because aids was/has often been thought of as a way to let "fags" die off, that and also just to control the numbers of the general population. Conspiracy theories aside, good news, none the less.

The conspiracy theory's about HIV/AIDs are extremely saddening. AID's deniers and those who claim that pharmaceutical companies are happy they have HIV it really makes me sad. They really don't understand that HIV is a virus which mutates so very fast that even if you created a 'cure' it wouldn't work for everyone.

 

[palemale]

This seemed to be too good to be true, but I hope not. Let's just hope this case speeds up the process to finding a cure that will be helpful and affordable to most people affected by HIV.

 

[Serenx55]

This seemed to be too good to be true, but I hope not. Let's just hope this case speeds up the process to finding a cure that will be helpful and affordable to most people affected by HIV.

This case in particular won't really do much. He was cured because he received a donation from the genetic lottery. Not to mention he's still HIV +. So in terms of actually stopping the spread of HIV this is almost irrelevant a discovery.

 

[White Eagle]

First HIV-Positive Man Cured By Stem Cell Transplant Procedure

But will the Republicans objection to Stem cell research, will that stop the procedure?


http://www.newsoxy.com/health/first-hiv-positive-man-cured-16127.html

First HIV-Positive Man Cured By Stem Cell Transplant Procedure
By: Jennifer Hong
Staff Writer
Published: Dec 14, 2010

First HIV-Positive Man Cured
First HIV-positive man cured by stem cell transplant procedure. The man could be the first cured HIV-positive patient.

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[White Eagle]

Thanks opinterph. I got excited about the article I posted it all without thinking.
Thanks for merging also.

 

[Serenx55]

Re: First HIV-Positive Man Cured By Stem Cell Transplant Procedure

But will the Republicans objection to Stem cell research, will that stop the procedure?


http://www.newsoxy.com/health/first-hiv-positive-man-cured-16127.html

It's a bone marrow transplant........

 

[White Eagle]

Re: First HIV-Positive Man Cured By Stem Cell Transplant Procedure

It's a bone marrow transplant........

You talk like you're in the medical profession. If so, welcome aboard. We need that kind of knowledge here.

 

[Kulindahr]

The trick now would be how to get the benefit of that gene into people without having to kill off their own immune system.