HIV Cured By Immune System of Argentinian Women

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Scientists have identified the second person to rid themselves of HIV without medical treatment, according to an article published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The patient, an unnamed woman living in Argentina, was found to have human immunodeficiency virus in 2013.

Since 2017, an international team of researchers has been poring over the patient's DNA in search of traces of the virus. The team even checked her placenta after she gave birth in March 2020, STAT reported. After sequencing billions of cells, the scientists have confirmed the woman is HIV-free.

Modern medicine has made it possible for many people to live with the virus under control, but they typically require consistent antiretroviral therapy to prevent the virus from replicating.

In total, four people have now been declared to be cured of HIV.

Two of them, however — known as the Berlin Patient and the London Patient — were cured after receiving stem-cell transplants, a risky procedure that scientists have tried to replicate with other patients without success.

In 2020, scientists shared a report on Loreen Willenberg — the San Francisco Patient, as doctors dubbed her — who was the first known case of a sterilizing cure without a medical intervention.

Willenberg and the unnamed patient in Argentina are also known as elite controllers, a small subset of HIV patients whose immune systems naturally suppress the virus.

According to STAT, the Argentine patient is known as the Esperanza Patient because she is from the city of Esperanza — which translates as "hope" in Spanish. She has a daughter, who is HIV-free, and is expecting a second child with her partner.

"Just thinking that my condition might help achieve a cure for this virus makes me feel a great responsibility and commitment to make this a reality," the patient told STAT.

 

 

 

 

Here we goooo! We are closer and closer each day. 

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

This is amazing, I hope it brings us closer to end this hiv pandemic

 

edit: do you have a source link?

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10 minutes ago, Chromatislaps said:

This is amazing, I hope it brings us closer to end this hiv pandemic

 

edit: do you have a source link?

Yes!

I'm sorry for not sharing https://www.businessinsider.com/second-person-naturally-cured-of-hiv-scientists-say-2021-11

[Lextyr97 20,790]

Holy ****. This is incredible news. I’m glad she’s willing to help too!

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I wonder if this affects other illnesses/viruses as well 

literally super human material

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Kween

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she said "not me, don't have the time to take care of this" and got rid of it 

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Al gran pueblo argentino, salud! 

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11 minutes ago, PopEmergency said:

I wonder if this affects other illnesses/viruses as well 

literally super human material

There are people that are immune to HIV, too. 

Also, there are people that are infected with it but their body is keeping them undetectable. 

 

Human organism is really something else.