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Paris, France (AFP) \u2014 A HIV-positive man in remission may be the first patient effectively cured of the illness without needing a bone marrow transplant, researchers said Tuesday in a potential breakthrough.<\/p>\n

HIV affects tens of millions of people globally and while the disease is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, patients need to take medication for life.<\/p>\n

In recent years two men — known as the “Berlin” and “London” patients — appear to have been cured of the disease after undergoing high-risk stem cell bone marrow transplants to treat cancer.<\/p>\n

Now an international team of researchers believe they may have a third patient who no longer shows sign of infection after undergoing a different medicine regimen.<\/p>\n

The patient, a 34-year-old Brazilian who has not been named, was diagnosed with HIV in 2012.<\/p>\n

As part of the study, he was given several potent antiviral drugs, including maraviroc and dolutegravir, to see if they could help him rid the virus from his body.<\/p>\n

He has now gone more than 57 weeks with no HIV treatment and he continues to test negative for HIV antibodies.<\/p>\n

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Ricardo Diaz, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Sao Paulo, said the patient could be considered to be free of the disease.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“The significance for me is that we had a patient that was on treatment and he is now controlling the virus without treatment,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n

“We’re not able to detect the virus and he’s losing the specific response to the virus — if you don’t have antibodies then you don’t have antigens.”<\/p>\n

– ‘Provocative’ findings –<\/p>\n

Diaz’s findings were released as part of the first-ever all-virtual International AIDS Conference, held online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The United Nations said Monday that 1.7 million people contracted HIV last year and there are now more than 40 million people living with it.<\/p>\n

Diaz said his team’s treatment method, which needs further research, was a more ethical avenue for gravely ill HIV sufferers than the bone-marrow transplant route.<\/p>\n

“They come with a high mortality rate, there have been a series of patients who have either died from the procedures or it didn’t work,” he said.<\/p>\n

Sharon Lewin, co-Chair of the International AIDS Society Initiative Towards an HIV Cure and director of the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, said Diaz’s findings were “very interesting”.<\/p>\n

She struck a note of caution however, due to the study’s limitations.<\/p>\n

She noted that the Brazil patients’ antibody test had gotten weaker over time — suggesting a diminishing immune response.<\/p>\n

“This is very unusual to see in someone off antivirals,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The Berlin and London Patients may be the only exceptions. This very provocative data needs more in-depth analysis.”<\/p>\n

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