Effort to cure HIV suffers major setback

Six patients with HIV who were given blood-cell transplants similar to one that cured a man known as "the Berlin patient" have died. Researchers say it's a major disappointment for efforts to cure infection with the AIDS virus

So far, Timothy Ray Brown, a U.S. man treated in Germany, remains the only person thought to have been cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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Brown also had leukemia, and had a bone marrow transplant in 2007 to treat the cancer from a donor with a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to HIV. Read more...

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