Towards an HIV Cure - a Myth or a Reality?

Recent progress in HIV research has directed global scientific community to search for a ‘cure’ for HIV infection. The first evidence emerged from Timothy Brown, a Berlin patient. This HIV-infected patient received hematopoietic stem cells from an HLA-matched donor whose genome naturally lacked CCR5, the major receptor of HIV. Mr Brown appears to be cured of HIV as well as leukaemia as no infectious virus could be recovered from his blood and other tissues for over 6 years after the stem cell transplantation. The case has given direction to scientists to administer genetically modified stem cells lacking CCR5 receptors to HIV-infected person to provide a defence against HIV. However, this approach may be difficult to apply to all HIV-infected persons globally

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