Some people have a gene defect in the co-receptor for HIV and live a completely normal life. This gene defect is probably most common among people living in Northern Europe.
“Just like the Norwegian army manages perfectly well even though a little handgun goes missing, the body manages without the CCR5 receptor,” explains Kvale.
Paradoxically, the defective gene does not make you ill, but prevents you from contracting HIV.
Since the CCR5 gene is non-functional, the HIV virus cannot bind itself to it. And it is perhaps here that the key to overcoming the virus lies hidden. By genetically manipulating this gene in HIV patients and making it defective, researchers can perhaps eradicate the virus.
“We have two copies of every gene,” says Kvale, and continues, “People with defects in the co-receptors in both genes do not become infected by HIV. Those who have one healthy and one defective gene are infected more slowly and contract a HIV infection that develops far less rapidly.
The virus that disappeared
The goal is to find a cure for HIV. And this is no longer a Utopian dream, according to Kvale.
One possible path is by genetically manipulating the stem cells in the bone marrow of a HIV-positive person so that they acquire the gene defect that gives protection against HIV.
The case of “The Berlin patient” is unique in HIV research. This relates to a HIV patient who actually got rid of the infection. The patient was HIV positive, and was also stricken by leukemia. As part of his cancer treatment, he underwent a bone marrow transplantation. After being treated with large doses of cytostatic drugs and radiation to kill the cancer cells, he received bone marrow transplanted from a healthy donor.
The donor belonged to the small percentage of people who possess the above-mentioned co-receptor with a defective CCR5 gene. The healthy bone marrow with the defective gene was transplanted into the patient, and the doctors stopped giving him HIV medication.
And the result? The HIV virus disappeared.

We will get thre soon!!

With HIV there has been hope since I can remember but the only progresses made're in ARV medications. Sometimes they come close to a near-cure only to later debunk claims or forget it totally. These white people're not ready to cure AIDS anytime soon.

Not only Europeans have natural immunity to the virus. Some Africans were discovered to have it and vaccines were planned to be made from their blood in 2010. Since then statements got recanted with conclusions drawing that trials carried out using their blood failed.