{"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\"> < 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\u2019s body after the transplant<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A UK patient\u2019s HIV has become \u201cundetectable\u201d following a stem cell transplant \u2013 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 \u201ccured\u201d 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\u2019s HIV has become \u201cundetectable\u201d following a stem cell transplant \u2013 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":["post-19579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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}]}}