HIV AIDS Bone Marrow Transplant Cure - Skeptical View

Updated February 17, 2021

More current news:

Maryland HIV researcher on latest research: It's not a cure - WBAL-TV:

"Scientists used a cutting-edge stem cell transplant method to treat a woman's HIV, but a lead researcher in Maryland said it's too soon to celebrate. A U.S. woman is the third known person who is in HIV remission after receiving stem cells from umbilical cord blood, an American research team announced Wednesday."

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Updated May 1, 2021

The original link broke.

You can read more about the topic at:

Is “Cure” Still A Four-Letter Word? (PDF) - sfaf.org

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Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about this latest case report. However, there are alternate views of what this really means. See what I mean by reading this ABC Health Insider news article, "For AIDS, 'Cure' Is Still a Four-Letter Word." There are a couple of ways to think about this. If bone marrow transplantation really works in the long run, how do we make it widely available and affordable?! If it doesn't work, how long will it take to definitively confirm its ultimate failure?! What's your opinion? 

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