who had leukemia and was HIV-positive appears to have become the third person ever to be cured of HIV, according to the NIH. Here is why doctors and researchers say the treatment she received is so novel and important.
This case is the first to use umbilical cord blood cells and the first to treat someone who is multi-racial.
Dr. Jingmei Hsu, a stem cell transplant specialist with Weill Cornell Medicine, was the transplant doctor for the woman. She said the treatment appears to have cured the patient's leukemia and also appears to have cured her HIV. "Transplant was able to replace patient's blood immune system so the HIV virus can no longer infect the patient," Hsu said. "So far, we're not detecting any HIV.""As far as we can tell at this point, we still cannot say — I will not say completely cured, but possibly cured," Hsu said.Hsu said stem cells from umbilical cord blood would not be used to treat just HIV.
"The reason that's so important and novel is that cord blood is much more readily available than stem cells that are actually harvested from adults and adult donors," De Latour said.
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