According to foreign media reports, recently, an HIV-infected person from Argentina successfully achieved self-healing without receiving any treatment. It is reported that this is the second case of self-healing of AIDS infection found worldwide.
The HIV-infected person is a 30-year-old woman known as the "Esperanza Patient" (named after her hometown of a small Argentine town). In March 2013, she was first diagnosed with HIV. This would have meant that she would not be able to get rid of HIV for the rest of her life and would have to suppress it by taking medication every day.
However, 8 years later, after a round of comprehensive testing, she was miraculously found to have no signs of HIV activity in her body and no HIV residue. Not only that, but the current boyfriend who has lived with the woman for many years and the woman's newborn child have not been found with HIV.
In a comprehensive test, scientists sequenced her 1.9 billion blood cells and 500 million tissue cells, but there was no evidence that she was infected with HIV.
Even more surprising was that during the 8 years of follow-up after the woman was diagnosed, she only took a small amount of antiretroviral drugs during her pregnancy and did not receive any other treatment.
It should be known that there is no effective drug for the eradication of HIV infection in medicine, nor is there an effective vaccine that can be used for prevention. Therefore, after being infected with HIV, it basically means that there is no cure, and only the maximum and lasting reduction of the viral load can be achieved.
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is generally used for people living with HIV, but it can only suppress HIV and cannot cure it.
In addition, stem cell transplantation can provide an effective and rare way to clear the virus, but is extremely rare. In the 40 years since AIDS was discovered, only two patients worldwide have used this method to confirm cures: the famous "Berlin Patient" and the "London Patient".
Compared with the previous two rare cases of HIV infection cured by stem cell transplantation, this "Esperanza patient" who achieved self-healing without any treatment is even more miraculous.
However, this is not the first case, but the second case of a natural cure for HIV infection found so far worldwide. In August 2020, Loren Weirenberg, 67, in San Francisco, became the world's first naturally cured HIV infection.
Currently, there are nearly 38 million people living with HIV worldwide. And these recent discoveries and breakthroughs have undoubtedly brought them hope. Perhaps, in the future, we can really achieve a complete cure for people living with HIV.
"Examples of such naturally developed cures show that current efforts to find a cure for HIV infection are not out of reach, and that the prospect of becoming an AIDS-free generation may ultimately succeed." Xu Yu, an immunologist at Harvard University and the MIT Lagun Institute of Medicine, said.
Wuhan Morning Post intern reporter Zhang Jiao
Source: Nine Factions News