Patient 'cured' of HIV after bone marrow transplant

[Dr_BuzzCzar]

I've, unfortunately, been doing a fair amount of research on BMT procedures and reading on clinical trials pretty much everywhere for my wife who suffers from one of the forms of leukemia. I realize that the results of this procedure citied above is anecdotal but when you're staring the alternative in the face and that alternative is death, those anecdotes can be pretty impressive. I can't speak for all transplants but for leukemic bone marrow transplants the fatality rate is between 20%-30% depending on several factors so that is a serious consideration and tends to make BMT a very late treatment option. There's another whole story on when or if the BMT should be done due to "clean" remissions, drug resistances, patient's age and health, etc

As I understand it the principles determined from Dr Huetter's work may eventually apply the blocking methodology of the genetic resistance to other treatments because matching marrow and the genetic mutation for AIDS patients is pretty near zero.

There are 1.3 million Americans on the marrow donor list, why not add yours? You could save a life.