Already AIDS can be cured?

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Alabama - An unusual blood transplantation appears to have healed a U.S. origin of AIDS patients living in Berlin. But the doctors say that the method of treatment is not to practiced widely.

These patients, aged 40, got blood cell transplant in 2007 to cure leukemia. Doctors who treated him not only good in matching blood, but also get the gene mutation that provides natural resistance to HIV. Thus quoted from the Associated Press on Wednesday (15/12/2010).

Now, after three years have passed, the patient no longer shows signs of the HIV virus and leukemia, according to a report in the journal Blood.

"This is an interesting proof of concept, that extraordinary methods, a patient can be cured of the HIV virus. But it was too risky for the method to be used as standard therapy even if a suitable donor could be found," said Dr. Michael Saag of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

"Blood Transplant that lately a lot done, used to fight cancer, and risks to human health remains unknown. Transplantation blood destroy the patient's original immune system, and replace it with donor cells to grow new immune system. The death rate from the procedure could reach the figure of 5 percent or more, "says Saag, who was also former chairman of the HIV Medicine Association, an association of AIDS specialists.

"We can not fully apply this healing method to healthy individuals, because the risk is too great, unless someone with the HIV virus was also suffering from cancer," added Saag.

When cases of AIDS patients cured in Berlin sticking to the surface two years ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci, president of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the procedure is too expensive and risky to be done as a method of healing. But such methods can provide instructions for using gene therapy or other methods to get the same results.