MAN CURED OF HIV IN BERLIN

According to the FOXNews article, "Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV-positive American living in Germany, had leukemia and was undergoing chemotherapy, when he received a transplant of stem cells from a donor carrying a rare, inherited gene mutation that seems to make carriers virtually immune to HIV infection."


Doctors say the successful transplant rid Brown of both his leukemia and his HIV infection.

However, the cure is "absurdly impractical".  You have to "find compatible donor that has this genetic defect, and this defect is only found in 1 percent of the Caucasian population and zero percent of the black population. This is very rare.”


However impractical, though, it gives us hope that a more practical and standard cure for HIV is realistic in the future and marks a huge milestone in HIV/AIDS research.