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Treatment For AIDS: Till now there is no cure for AIDS disease. By 2022, 40.4 million people will have died worldwide due to this disease. But recently scientists have achieved a big success. 7 AIDS patients have been completely cured by stem cell therapy.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a dangerous virus that attacks the body’s immune system. This causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome i.e. AIDS. Once infected, the patient has to live with it throughout his life, because no cure has been found for this disease yet. However, this virus can be controlled with medical care.
But recently stem cell transplant has proved to be a lifesaver for AIDS patients. Till now, 7 AIDS patients have become completely disease free. So has a cure been found for AIDS, the disease that has been causing the death of millions of people for 44 years? Let us try to understand the answer with the help of this article.
what is the whole matter
The seventh AIDS patient in Berlin became disease free with the help of stem cell transplant. This treatment is very difficult and dangerous, but sometimes it works. Till now, the six people whose HIV was cured in this way had a special gene in their body, which protected them from the virus. But this time the man whose disease was cured did not have this special gene in his body, which has made scientists more hopeful about the treatment of AIDS. Professor Christian Gabler of the Free University of Berlin told New Scientist that the man’s recovery without the mutation “gives us more options for treating HIV”.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, stem cell transplants can sometimes treat or cure blood disorders, cancer and some autoimmune diseases. In this, unhealthy cells of the patient’s body are replaced with healthy cells. For this, sometimes the help of a donor is also taken. This procedure is done when the disease becomes fatal and no other treatment option works.
Is stem cell transplant the cure for AIDS?
Stem cell transplant is not for everyone. The risk of death is very high in this, hence it is used only on those people who are facing a fatal disease or have reached its last stage. Which means that this option is not a permanent or common treatment for AIDS.
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