What Relapse of Men "Functionally Cured" of HIV Taught Us

"Disappointment" was the word most often used to describe the report that two Boston men, proclaimed "functionally cure" of HIV in 2012, relapsed after only a year. It was hoped that the bone marrow transplant they underwent to treat  lymphoma (a type of cancer that affects certain blood cells) would effectively clear their bodies of HIV in the same way that it appears to have done with Timothy Ray Brown, the Berlin-based American who underwent a stem cell transplant in 2009 and remains "virus-free" after four years....Read Full Post
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