Health
First Woman May Be Cured of HIV Without a Bone Marrow Transplant – POZ
Loreen Willenberg is part of a group of elite controllers whose HIV appears to be locked away where it can’t produce new virus.
A California woman may be the first person to be cured of HIV without a bone marrow transplant, according to a recent report in Nature. More than 60 other so-called elite controllers, who have unusually potent immune responses to HIV, were found to have their virus sequestered in parts of their genome where it is unable to replicate.
The unusual case involves Loreen Willenberg, who acquired HIV in 1992. Her immune system has maintained control of the virus for decades without the use of antiret…
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