AIDS patient cured in Brazil
7/11/2020
HIV has killed 32 million people since it first circulated in the 1980s, but the recovery of a patient in Brazil has given great hope to cure more cases with prescription drugs.
The patient, a man in his mid-30s, underwent a prolonged period of treatment, the first time that a patient had recovered from the virus only after drug treatment.
Doctors stated that the patient received an intense mixture of AIDS drugs, including ART or ART, as well as taking additional antiretrovirals, as well as a drug called nicotinamide, which is a form of Vitamin B3.
According to a study in which Dr. Ricardo Diaz of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, an unidentified man was diagnosed with HIV in 2012 and underwent a 48-week leading course of drug therapy.
A little over a year later, DNA and cell tests showed he had recovered from HIV. "We cannot fully examine the body, but with the best evidence available, the patient does not have any infected cells," Dr. Diaz said in an interview with the Telegraph.
"This case is very exciting, and I really hope it will further research to find a cure for HIV," Andrea Safarino, a doctor at the Italian Institute of Health who co-led the experiment, said in an interview with the British Charity AIDS Foundation.
However, researchers believe that this experiment needs more research, despite the recovery of a patient from HIV, but 4 other patients who underwent the same experiment did not show any symptoms of improvement, according to the British newspaper Express.
