New setback for HIV cure efforts

Six transplants didn’t work like the Berlin patient’s did

That is disappointing ... we always knew that was a risk. Dr. Steven Deeks, AIDS specialist

BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANADA/THE WORLD

Researchers are reporting another disappointment for efforts to cure infection with the AIDS virus. Six patients given blood-cell transplants similar to one that cured a man known as “the Berlin patient” have failed, and all six patients died. So far,...

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