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HIV remission achieved in second patient offers hope for new treatment strategies

A second person has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing treatment. The case report comes ten years after the first such case, known as the ‘Berlin Patient.’

A second person has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing treatment, according to a study published today in Nature. The case report, carried out by researchers at UCL and Imperial College London, together with teams at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, comes ten years after the first such case, known as the ‘Berlin Patient.’ Both patients were treated with stem cell transplants from donors carrying a genetic mutation that prevents expression of an HIV receptor CCR5. The subject of the new study has been in remission for 18 months after his antiretroviral therapy (ARV) was

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