Doctors in Barcelona, Spain believe they have found the
cure to HIV – the AIDS-causing virus that affects the lives
of more than 34 million people worldwide, according to
WHO (World Health Organization).

By using blood transplants from the umbilical cords of
individuals with a genetic resistance to HIV, Spanish
medical professionals believe they can treat the virus,
having proven the procedure successful with one patient.

A 37-year-old man from Barcelona, who had been infected
with the HIV virus in 2009, was cured of the condition after
receiving a transplant of blood.

While unfortunately the man later died from cancer just
three years later, having developed lymphoma, the Spanish
medical team is still hugely encouraged by what it
considers to be a breakthrough in the fight against HIV and
related conditions, according to the Spanish news source "El Mundo".

Doctors in Barcelona initially attempted the technique using the precedent of Timothy Brown, an HIV patient who
developed leukemia before receiving experimental
treatment in Berlin, the Spanish news site The Local reported.

Brown was given bone marrow from a donor who
carried the resistance mutation from HIV. After the cancer
treatment, the HIV virus had also disappeared.

According to The Local, the CCR5 Delta 35 mutation affects
a protein in white blood cells and provides an estimated one percent of the human population with high resistance to infection from HIV.

Spanish doctors attempted to treat the lymphoma of the so-called “Barcelona patient” with chemotherapy and an auto-transplant of the cells, but were unable to find him a
suitable bone marrow.

“We suggested a transplant of blood from an umbilical cord
but from someone who had the mutation because we knew
from ‘the Berlin patient’ that as well as [ending] the cancer,
we could also eradicate HIV,” Rafael Duarte, the director of
the Haematopoietic Transplant Programme at the Catalan
Oncology Institute in Barcelona, told The Local.

Prior to the transplant, a patient’s blood cells are destroyed
with chemotherapy before they are replaced with new cells,
incorporating the mutation which means the HIV virus can
no longer attach itself to them. For the Barcelona patient,
stem cells from another donor were used in order to
accelerate the regeneration process.

Eleven days after the transplant, the patient in Barcelona
experienced recovery. Three months later, it was found that
he was clear of the HIV virus.

Despite the unfortunate death of the patient from cancer,
the procedure has led to the development of an ambitious
project that is backed by Spain’s National Transplant
Organization.

October 2016 will mark the world’s first clinical trials of
umbilical cord transplants for HIV patients with blood
cancers. Javier Martinez, a virologist from the research
foundation Irsicaixa, stressed that the process is primarily
designed to assist HIV patients suffering from cancer, but
“this therapy does allow us to speculate about a cure for
HIV,” he added.

Source=http://tmzworldnews.com/hivaids-cure-finally-found-doctors-confirm-no-more-condoms/

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