SAN FRANCISCO, CA, US:
In a first, a San Francisco native has apparently been cured of the deadly HIV virus.
Timothy Ray Brown, 45, had tested positive for HIV, the virus symptomatic of AIDs , back in 1995. However, he has managed to eliminate the virus from his body with what doctors describe as a functional cure.
Dubbed the Berlin patient, Brown received a stem cell transplant in 2007 when he was suffering from leukemia and HIV, both. The transplant carried an immunity gene which cured Brown of his disease.
I quit taking my HIV medication the day that I got the transplant and havent had to take any since, said Brown in a CBS report.
However, doctors are cautious not to take Browns story as a generic cure for AIDs. A lot of questions were still unanswered in his case to determine the exact cause of cure.
Many research organisations have been working for decades in a bid to find a cure to HIV, and thereby AIDs.
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donated $10 billion last year to fund a 10 year research program looking for a cure to AIDS.
Almost 100,000 people in Pakistan are affected by the disease with Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa the worst affected. 744 cases of HIV/AIDs were reported from the north western Pakistani province last year.
In a first, a San Francisco native has apparently been cured of the deadly HIV virus.
Timothy Ray Brown, 45, had tested positive for HIV, the virus symptomatic of AIDs , back in 1995. However, he has managed to eliminate the virus from his body with what doctors describe as a functional cure.
Dubbed the Berlin patient, Brown received a stem cell transplant in 2007 when he was suffering from leukemia and HIV, both. The transplant carried an immunity gene which cured Brown of his disease.
I quit taking my HIV medication the day that I got the transplant and havent had to take any since, said Brown in a CBS report.
However, doctors are cautious not to take Browns story as a generic cure for AIDs. A lot of questions were still unanswered in his case to determine the exact cause of cure.
Many research organisations have been working for decades in a bid to find a cure to HIV, and thereby AIDs.
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donated $10 billion last year to fund a 10 year research program looking for a cure to AIDS.
Almost 100,000 people in Pakistan are affected by the disease with Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa the worst affected. 744 cases of HIV/AIDs were reported from the north western Pakistani province last year.
