AIDSAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

It wasn’t that long ago that a diagnosis of Hiv amounted to a death sentence. In the 1980s, when the virus first came to uncut social attention, there was no rehabilitation and assuredly no cure. Even as late as the 1990s, an Hiv diagnosis meant sickness and the eventual process of the virus to turn into the dreaded Aids, a condition which renders the body’s immune theory unfit to ward off infections that were all around. Aids sufferers died of opportunistic diseases because their bodies could no longer fight the germs of daily living. Researchers worked towards a Hiv cure, but had little hope of looking one.

Recently, though, treatments have come to be so sophisticated that some population say an Hiv diagnosis is great than a diagnosis of cancer. This is because the new treatments are highly active and do an excellent job of suppressing Hiv. Hiv treatments can now stop the progression of the virus into full-blown Aids. This means far fewer Aids patients and far fewer Hiv connected deaths. But still, though hope was there towards a Hiv cure, it was far off.

Now, however, some radical treatments have shown that there is hope for a cure, and that it might be closer than we would have thought. One American man was working in Berlin when he was tested for Hiv and found he was infected. Years into getting treatment, he also industrialized leukemia. A great physician was working on his cancer rehabilitation and remembered that there are some genes that bestow cell resistance to Hiv. He decided to try to look for a bone marrow donor with these genes to see if there could be crossover. More than four years later, the patient is said to have no more cancer or Hiv in his body. He is completely well and population are wondering if they are closer than ever towards a Hiv cure.

Some skeptics say that you need more than five years in order to call something a cure. They are right to be cautious, but many are overwhelmingly excited that this breakthrough has occurred. Doctors and patients anywhere can take hope in the story of this patient, who seems to have been able to rid his body of Hiv with an experimental treatment. No doubt doctors, researchers and scientists will be studying his case for years to see how they can replicate it. In the mean time, they continue to work harder than ever towards a Hiv cure that can give this kind of hope to Hiv infected population everywhere.

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