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Don’t believe the hype: Why the London patient’s procedure is not a cure for the HIV epidemic

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It was announced this week that a second person living with HIV who was co-infected with late-stage cancer,  underwent a bone marrow transplant with stem cells from a donor who had the CCR5 genetic mutation. As a result of this procedure, consistent with the famous “Berlin patient” Timothy Ray Brown, the “London patient” appears to be rid of measurable HIV virus.  Read More

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