I’m surprised more people didn’t try that route earlier. Step one in stem cell transplant for leukemia it to kill all existing immune cells. HIV hides in immune cells.
I think too many HIV patients were too compromised by opportunistic infections to ever be healthy enough for stem cell transplants
Nowadays many hiv positive individuals are in better than average health. And a fluke for the ones diagnosed with AIDS they enjoy a slightly longer than average lufe expectancy. This is part a survivor bias, where only the fittest of tgat cohort survived. It is also due to their being eledgable for medicaid with double the income of anyone else.
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I’m surprised more people didn’t try that route earlier. Step one in stem cell transplant for leukemia it to kill all existing immune cells. HIV hides in immune cells.
I think too many HIV patients were too compromised by opportunistic infections to ever be healthy enough for stem cell transplants
Nowadays many hiv positive individuals are in better than average health. And a fluke for the ones diagnosed with AIDS they enjoy a slightly longer than average lufe expectancy. This is part a survivor bias, where only the fittest of tgat cohort survived. It is also due to their being eledgable for medicaid with double the income of anyone else.