Man Cured of HIV?

I was a professional AIDS Information Specialist working for the Centers for Disease Control, and I've been an activist on this issue, to a greater or lesser degree, for about 25 years.  I found this article fascinating, and hope you do, too.  [Click the link to read the entire article on Gizmodo.com.]

*UPDATE* Here's a link to another article about this.


Man Officially Cured of HIV

Doctors were savvy when they chose a stem cell donor for Brown. The man whose bone marrow they used has a particular genetic mutation, present in an incredibly small percentage of people, that makes him almost invulnerable to HIV. With Brown's own defenses decimated by treatments, the healthy, HIV-resistant donor cells repopulated his immune system. Three years later, having taken no antiretroviral drugs since the transplant, extensive testing shows no signs whatsoever of HIV.