In America, a patient of leukemia has become completely healthy after defeating HIV. This mixed-race woman was treated using cord blood. Researchers say that this woman was treated only through stem cell transplant.
In America, a patient of leukemia has become completely healthy after defeating HIV. With this, she has become the first woman in the world to defeat HIV. She is the third such HIV patient in the world who has been cured by defeating this incurable disease. This mixed-race woman was treated using cord blood.
Before this, there are two more people in the world who were cured of bone marrow transplant. Both types of transplants contain stem cells with a mutation that stops HIV. Researchers say that this woman was treated only through stem cell transplant. Let us tell you, these stem cells were donated by a person who had natural resistance against the HIV virus.
What is this new treatment technique: Actually, doctors used umbilical cord blood to treat this woman suffering from HIV. Unlike bone marrow transplant, this technique also does not require the addition of stem cells taken from the umbilical cord blood to the donor. Let us tell you, bone marrow transplant is not a better option for HIV patients. It is very dangerous for them, so only those people who are suffering from cancer are treated with this and there is no other way left.
HIV was detected in 2013 The woman was diagnosed with HIV in 2013. Four years later, she was also diagnosed with leukemia. This blood cancer was treated through haplo-card transplant. During the transplant, a close relative also donated blood to the woman to increase her immunity. The woman's last transplant was done in 2017. She has been completely cured of leukemia for the last four years. Three years after the transplant, doctors also stopped her HIV treatment and she has not come under any virus till now.
During the treatment, first of all chemotherapy is done to the patient so that the cancer cells can be eliminated from the root. After that, doctors take stem cells from a person with a particular genetic mutation and transplant it into the patient's body. The researcher believes that after this transplant, immunity develops in the patients to fight against HIV.