Patients cured of HIV speak during Munich AIDS conference
Patients cured of HIV speak during Munich AIDS conference
Three patients who are thought to be among the first in the world to be officially cured of HIV explain the process and their feelings during the International AIDS conference in Munich. They all received stem cell transplants, a painful and risky procedure for people who have both HIV and aggressive leukaemia. It is, therefore, not an option for most of the people living with HIV. "They're inspiring. They give us new ideas to test, but they're very rare. Only seven people out of 40 million people living with HIV. So these are very rare cases, but they inspire new directions in science," says President of the International AIDS Society, Sharon Lewin.
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Three patients who are thought to be among the first in the world to be officially cured of HIV explain the process and their feelings during the International AIDS conference in Munich. They all received stem cell transplants, a painful and risky procedure for people who have both HIV and aggressive leukaemia. It is, therefore, not an option for most of the people living with HIV. "They're inspiring. They give us new ideas to test, but they're very rare. Only seven people out of 40 million people living with HIV. So these are very rare cases, but they inspire new directions in science," says President of the International AIDS Society, Sharon Lewin.
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00:00And the process, it takes years, as we were talking earlier, it's not one specific time
00:06you say you cure, it takes a while, and then we have like a controlled expectations towards
00:13that, and it's important to people to know that we don't get that, oh you cured, and
00:17then take it from there, no, it just happens through months, and we were talking about
00:2218 months to 36 months.
00:24I think the hope is that they can believe that a cure is possible, because we're living
00:30proof that it can happen.
00:34They're working on developing different ways, because the stem cell transplant is not for
00:38everyone, because there's so many risks involved.
00:41I had to have it because of my AML, because I wouldn't have survived.
00:48Cases today that we talked about are really exciting, they're inspiring, they give us
00:53new ideas to test, but they're very rare, only 7 people out of 40 million people living
01:01with HIV, so these are very rare cases, but they inspire new directions in science.