{"id":19579,"date":"2019-03-05T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19579"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:55:54","slug":"uk-patient-free-of-hiv-after-stem-cell-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/uk-patient-free-of-hiv-after-stem-cell-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"UK patient &#8216;free&#8217; of HIV after stem cell treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/17D20\/production\/_105886579_gettyimages-943431290.jpg\" alt=\"HIV\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HIV was no longer detected in the patient&#8217;s body after the transplant<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A UK patient&#8217;s HIV has become &#8220;undetectable&#8221; following a stem cell transplant &#8211; in only the second case of its kind, doctors report in\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/\">Nature.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The London patient, who was being treated for cancer, has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no longer taking HIV drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say it is too early to say the patient is &#8220;cured&#8221; of HIV.\u00a0Experts say the approach is not practical for treating most people with HIV but may one day help find a cure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-47421855\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A UK patient&#8217;s HIV has become &#8220;undetectable&#8221; following a stem cell transplant &#8211; in only the second case of its kind, doctors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}