The case of a middle-aged mixed-race patient was presented at a scientific conference on retroviruses and infections in Denver, and she is the first person to be treated with a new method involving umbilical cord blood stem cells.

Since receiving umbilical cord blood for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, a form of cancer that forms in the cells that form blood in the bone marrow, the patient is in remission and has been cured of the virus for 14 months.

So far , two cases of AIDS cures have affected men, one white and one Latino, and they have been cured through adult stem cells, which are normally used in bone marrow transplants.

Interestingly, this instance is a part of a bigger trial that will treat 25 HIV-positive individuals who will have a bone marrow transplant. Every single one of them will initially endure chemotherapy in order to eliminate malignant cells. These patients will subsequently receive bone marrow transplants from persons who have a certain gene mutation and do not have receptors for the virus, which allows it to infect cells.

Researchers believe that as a result of this, these individuals will develop an immune system that is resistant to HIV.