A sixth person has been declared 'effectively cured' of - in yet another milestone in the fight against the disease. The Swiss man in his 50s - dubbed 'The Geneva Patient' - has been HIV-free since receiving a risky therapy in 2018. Repeated tests following the therapy detected no HIV in the patient's bloodstream, leading doctors to discontinue the patient's drug regimen in November 2021, suggesting he is experiencing long-term remissionDoctors like to wait five years from the point of discontinuing HIV medications before officially declaring a patient cured.
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