President Donald Trump extolled the progress made in finding a cure for HIV, as a patient with the virus appears to have been cured by doctors.
The patient received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV-resistant donor—the second time an adult has been cleared of the AIDS virus in the history of the epidemic.
The HIV-positive patient, a man from Britain, received bone marrow stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection. More than 18 months after, the unidentified man dubbed the “the London patient” came off antiretroviral drugs—tests still show no trace of the man’s previous infection.
“HIV Is Cured In 2nd Patient, Doctors Report, Such great news for so many. Tremendous progress being made!'” Trump wrote on Twitter, on March 5.
