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Researchers are calling it a scientific breakthrough, because it used a new method and because the patient was demographically different from previous patients to have undergone similar treatment to cure the virus.
The two previous patients were both men who were cured of HIV via donated bone marrow, not cord blood. Those transplants came from donors who had an HIV-blocking mutation, a more invasive and risky procedure overall. Cord blood stem cells are far easier to source than bone marrow-based cells as it is much simpler to find a suitable match, according to the researchers.people were living with HIV in 2020 worldwide. Only 28.2 million of them had access to antiretroviral therapy.
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