The American, Timothy Ray Brown, 44 years of age has become the first man to be cured of HIV (AIDS).
Brown received in 2007 a stem cell transplant as part of a treatment for leukemia. The donor in this case, had genetic resistance to HIV and that was what determined the care of Brown, who had to undergo the transplant after doctors decided he could not continue with sessions of chemotherapy to fight leukemia suffering.
transplantation ended with both the blood cancer and AIDS.
One in a million?
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S., who has 30 years experience in the study of HIV / AIDS, said that while it is an interesting test, is "absolutely impracticable ".
"It's hard enough to get a compatible donor for a transplant like this," Fauci said at FoxNews.com, "But you have to find a match that has the genetic defect that is only 1% of the population Caucasians and 0% of the black population. This is very strange, "he said. He said
Timothy Ray though is "functionally cured", this is not something you can do with all those infected with HIV.
In this regard, Thomas Quinn, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health said it was a rare case and a transplant of this nature is not the panacea for other HIV patients. "It's a near-fatal procedure was done because of leukemia, but this procedure is very expensive and must be transplanted with a donor that has demonstrated resistance to HIV," he said.
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