A woman in the New York City area appears to be the third person and the first woman ever to be cured of an HIV infection following a new stem cell transplant treatment involving umbilical cord blood. She has shown no detectable signs of the virus since stopping antiretroviral treatment in October 2020.
Her doctors presented the case on Tuesday (February 15) at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Denver, but the findings have not yet been published.
“Everything is looking very promising,” Marshall Glesby, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian, who treated the woman, tells The Wall Street Journal.
According to The New York Times, the woman was diagnosed with HIV in 2013. In March 2017, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, which made her a candidate for a stem cell transplant, according to the Journal.
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