In a huge breakthrough, researchers announced that a man was cured of HIV after receiving stem cell treatment over a decade ago. The 53-year-old man from Germany has now become third person ever to be declared clear of HIV, the virus that has killed 40 million people since its outbreak in 1981. Globally, 1.5 million people became newly infected with the virus in 2021, while approximately 650,000 died from AIDS-related illnesses. In this latest breakthrough, the patient was declared “cured” of the virus, about a decade after he underwent a procedure that replaced his bone bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor.
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