A Woman Diagnosed with AIDS Recovered Without Treatment

Transmitted by blood and sexual intercourse HIV virus, attacks the human immune system, weakening it. The virus, which increases the risk of infection in the body, leads to AIDS as a result of the progression of the infection. Although modern medicine has been able to ensure that people with the virus live under control, it still has not found a definitive solution against this virus.

On the other hand, people who survived the HIV virus without any medical treatment throughout history have never been encountered until recent years. Recently, a new one has been added to these people. in Argentina A woman diagnosed with AIDS in 2013, recovered from the virus without the need for a stem cell transplant, according to new research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

No trace of HIV was found:

The condition of the person in question was actually mysterious from the very beginning. Although the woman was diagnosed with AIDS in 2013, she did not show any symptoms of the virus. Tests show that the virus is alive and multiplying in your body. could not find evidence. The only evidence that the woman was infected was the presence of antibodies alone.

Since 2017, researchers have continued to collect blood samples from the woman. The DNA of more than a billion cells was meticulously scanned, looking for signs that the virus was still hiding, dormant, or ready to emerge at the right moment. The same tests were performed after the woman gave birth in March 2020. also for the placenta they did.

The results of the tests were published yesterday, and the women’s HIV there is no trace announced. This indicated that the woman had cleared the deadly virus from her body without the need for any medication or stem cell treatment. The researchers explained that this case gives hope that the human immune system may be strong enough to control HIV and eliminate all functional virus.

Women were not the only cases of HIV survivors without treatment:

• Loreen Willenburg, the first person to recover from HIV without treatment.

The woman, known as ‘Esperanza Patient’ for the protection of her privacy, became the second case to recover from HIV completely without treatment. The previous case, called the ‘San Francisco Patient’ Loreen Willenburg was a woman. On the other hand, the virus was completely eradicated with treatment in only two cases. These were two people named ‘Berlin Patient’ and ‘London Patient’ who were treated in the 90s.