{"id":19599,"date":"2019-03-06T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19599"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:16:25","slug":"a-third-person-may-have-become-hiv-free-after-a-bone-marrow-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/a-third-person-may-have-become-hiv-free-after-a-bone-marrow-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"A third person may have become HIV-free after a bone marrow transplant"},"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: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/05174446\/achr4120-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several types of blood test can detect HIV\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several types of blood test can detect HIV<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following news of a man in the UK who has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2195679-landmark-hiv-case-may-be-the-second-person-ever-to-be-cured\/\">free of HIV since his cancer treatment<\/a>, a similar case has been reported by researchers who treated a patient in Germany. Together, they add to evidence that it may be possible to cure HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The virus infects cells of the immune system, which are made in the bone marrow. A man known as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn16032-hiv-cure-wont-save-sick-millions\/\">\u201cBerlin patient\u201d<\/a>\u00a0was the first person to become HIV-free after cancer treatment, back in 2007. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2195780-a-third-person-may-have-become-hiv-free-after-a-bone-marrow-transplant\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=news\">Read More\u00a0<\/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>Following news of a man in the UK who has been\u00a0free of HIV since his cancer treatment, a similar case has been&#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-19599","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\/19599","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=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}