First HIV Cure??

nidhogge Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:18 pm

http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2009/05/28/local_news/doc4a1d63cb68531598814432.txt

FOLEY, Ala. — A Foley physician said what appears to be the first case of HIV/AIDS cure in the world is getting little mention in the media.

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Dr. Awadhesh K. Gupta, medical director at Foley Walk-In Med Care, said he first heard of the medical breakthrough in April when he attended the Annual Conference of the American College of Physicians in Internal Medicine in Philadelphia.

It’s a conference Gupta tries to attend every year.

“This is the most prestigious organization of physicians in Internal Medicine and is responsible for certifying post graduate training in Internal Medicine. It is also one of the oldest,” he said.

According to Gupta, who has been practicing medicine in the South Baldwin area since 1997, the cure was first reported in early 2008 by a group of physicians from Germany at the annual conference on “Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections” in Boston. The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, finally published the report in its Feb. 12, 2009, issue, Gupta said.

So why has the news of the first case of HIV/AIDS cure received so little attention where the public is concerned?

“I can’t be sure as to why so little publicity,” Gupta said recently...

hapyman Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:01 am

Sorry didn't read it but what is it? Very Happy

nidhogge Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:19 pm

Haha Hapy, well, I'd definitely recommend reading the article detail on what exactly the cure is, but essentially an HIV victim contracted leukemia. So, they gave him a stem cell bone marrow transplant, and the German physician "deliberately chose a stem cell donor who had a gene mutation known as “CCR-5 Delta- 32,” rather than using the best matched donor."

That particular gene mutation once cured HIV in '99 I guess from what I'm taking from the article, and the German physician was aware of this and decided to give it a spin to hit two birds with one stone (leukemia and HIV). It was a success. Apparently, that particular mutation is found commonly in Northern Europeans (Scandinavian and the like), and it's figured that the reason that they have that gene mutation is a result of the years of plague, small pox, etc. that Europe had been afflicted with in that area.

The procedure, at present, is far too costly to be replicated but if it was given the necessary funding and attention that it deserves (which I'm sure it won't as AIDS is population control), it could potentially be THE cure.

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