News India Live, Digital Desk: It can be controlled by taking medicines, but it was considered impossible to completely eliminate it from the body. But friends, science has now made this ‘impossible’ ‘possible’. Recently another patient (who is the 7th patient in the world) has completely recovered from HIV.
Yes, there is no trace of the virus in his body now. And this miracle has happened ‘Stem Cell Transplant’ Because of.
After all, is this a stem cell transplant?
Let us understand it in simple language. There is a spongy part between the bones in our body which is called ‘bone marrow’. This is the factory where our blood is made. In stem cell transplant, doctors remove the patient’s old bone marrow and replace it with bone marrow from a donor who had a special feature in his genes.
The ‘magical’ gene that defeats the virus
Actually, there are only a few people in the world whose body has the power to fight HIV naturally. There is a mutation (change) in their genes, which in scientific language is called CCR5 delta 32 They say. This gene acts like a ‘closed door’ for the HIV virus. The virus cannot enter their blood even if it wants to.
Doctors transplanted the donor’s stem cells with this ‘special gene’ into the patient’s body. The result was that the patient’s body also became a shield against the virus and gradually HIV was eliminated.
So will every patient be cured now?
This question is in everyone’s mind. But here we need to pause and understand. This treatment is still very complex and risky.
- Only for those who were serious: The 7 people who have been cured so far had blood cancer (leukemia) along with HIV. This risky transplant was done for the treatment of cancer, due to which luckily HIV was also cured.
- Difficult to get donor: Finding a donor who has that rare gene and who also matches the patient is like finding a needle in a haystack.
new ray of hope
Even though this treatment is not available to everyone today, it has proved that HIV can be defeated. Scientists are now trying to make such medicines or gene therapy on this formula which can cure common patients without operation.
At present, this news is a ray of hope for the millions of people who are fighting this disease. At the speed with which science is progressing, perhaps the day is not far when AIDS will remain only in the history books.
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