A fourth person, named only as a 'City of Hope patient, has been cured of HIV using a highly dangerous stem cell treatment reserved only for patients who are also battling leukemia.The unnamed 66 year old man was treated in the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, , earning him his nickname. He received a blood stem cell transplant in early 2019 and has not shown any evidence of HIV replication in his body since. He has now been off of HIV medication for 17 months. The transplant is extremely dangerous and requires doctors to find a donor that has a rare genetic mutation that makes them resistant to the virus. Because of this, it is only reserved for HIV patients who are also suffering from late-stage cancer.
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