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Breaking News: Two men 'cured' of HIV by marrow transplant

US researchers say no trace of virus even though patients stopped taking anti-HIV medication a minimum of seven weeks agone TWO HIV-positive men who underwent bone marrow transplants to treat blood cancer seem to have been "cured" of the infection, the Washington Post reports . The men, who haven't been named, stopped taking the anti-retroviral medication that are used to treat HIV, however the infection failed to come back. Medical researchers say the finding offers "new avenues" to treating the infection in millions of patients worldwide. The two american men had been HIV-positive for concerning twenty five years, Timothy Henrich and Daniel Kuritzkes from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital told a world Aids Society conference in kuala lumpur nowadays. the boys each underwent bone marrow transplants to treat blood cancer about four years ago, a method within which cancerous blood cells are replaced with healthy donor cells. Timothy Ray Brow...