Researchers have announced that a 53-year-old man from Germany is now the fifth person to be cured of HIV.
The man, known only as the “Dusseldorf patient” for privacy reasons, is now officially the fifth person cured of HIV after doctors continued to find no detectable traces of the virus in his body since he stopped HIV medication four years ago, ABC News reported.
Though most people with HIV carry the virus with them for life, the Dusseldorf patient and four others have been cured after undergoing a high-risk stem cell transplant procedure intended to cure cancer. The procedure, which replaces the patient’s immune system, was typically performed in patients who didn’t have any other options left. It has now, however, proven successful in combating HIV, the outlet stated.
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