A middle-aged woman with HIV who received a cord blood hematopoietic cell transplant to treat acute myeloid leukemia has had no detectable levels of HIV for 14 months despite cessation of antiretroviral therapy, according to a presentation at CROI 2022.
Although this is the third known case of HIV remission, there are several “firsts,” according Yvonne J. Bryson, MD, an infectious disease pediatrician at the University of California, Los Angeles, who presented the data. The patient