Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, known as the virus that causes AIDS, has killed millions of people around the world to date. There is no cure for the virus, which seriously damages the immune system and causes great difficulties even in the slightest disease by turning into AIDS if timely measures are not taken.
However, there are a few people in history who managed to get negative from the anti-HIV, that is, ELISA tests, which were made by completely getting rid of the HIV virus. A new one has been added to these recently. Here are the details…
An American woman completely recovered from the HIV virus
According to the news of The New York Times, the life of an American woman who was diagnosed as HIV positive in 2013 was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017. changed after installation. In this process, two blood transfusions, one from an adult relative and the other from a newborn baby, were given to the woman, who was on treatment for both HIV and leukemia, to prevent her disease from progressing. It is worth noting that the sample taken from the baby is umbilical cord blood.
The woman in question somehow managed to get rid of the HIV virus after the blood transfusion of the umbilical cord she had done during her leukemia treatment. The woman, who also terminated her HIV treatment in 2020, received negative results from tests conducted for 1.5 years. It is also stated that the woman survived the leukemia disease.
After this situation, which was described as a great hope for HIV and AIDS treatment, the woman, who managed to keep leukemia for four years and HIV virus in remission for three years, and became the third patient in history to defeat the virus, is under follow-up by researchers. However, let’s point out that there are some question marks about the umbilical cord blood transplant method, which is claimed to be effective in defeating the virus.
So what do you think about this issue? Do you think umbilical cord blood, which is said to be effective in defeating the virus, can be a hope for the treatment of millions of patients around the world? Do not forget to share your views with us in the comments section or on the SDN Forum.
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