A 53-year-old man in Germany has been declared cured of HIV.
The patient is at least the third person to be declared cured of HIV,reported. Declaring someone cured happens once it is determined that the virus is no longer replicating or being stored in the body.
, which is a cancer that affects the parts of the body that make blood, such as bone marrow. That's because of the high risks with the procedure,reported. But researchers are looking at whether HIV patients' own bone marrow can be genetically changed to have the same mutation that was present in the Dusseldorf patient's transplant.
More than 38 million people worldwide are living with HIV, which is a virus that attacks the body's immune system by destroying white blood cells, thereby increasing the risk for other infections. Recently, promising vaccine trials for HIV were canceled because the experimental treatments were not effective.
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