两名男子大约分别在3年前和5年前,接受了干细胞移植以替换造血骨髓。他们的治疗方案与“柏林患者” Timothy Ray Brown相似。Brown是唯一宣称HIV治愈的****患者,6年来他的体内都未再检测到HIV病毒。去年7月,两名男子的医生宣布在他们的血液中似乎没有检测到HIV,但当时他们仍然在服用抗逆转录药物。
Two men with HIV may have been cured after they received stem-cell transplants to treat the blood cancer lymphoma, their doctors announced today at the International AIDS Society Conference in Kuala Lumpur.
One of the men received stem-cell transplants to replace his blood-cell-producing bone marrow about three years ago, and the other five years ago. Their regimens were similar to one used on Timothy Ray Brown, the 'Berlin patient' who has been living HIV-free for six years and is the only adult to have been declared cured of HIV. Last July, doctors announced that the two men — the ‘Boston patients’ — appeared to be living without detectable levels of HIV in their blood, but they were still taking antiretroviral medications at that time