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Admirable-Drama-432 Apr 14, 2026 +138

Stories like this are huge. Even if it’s rare, it shows beating HIV isn’t impossible anymore.

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Weary_Turnover_8499 Apr 14, 2026 +37

Isn't this the same technology which has been used for a decade or two already. If I recall correctly the treatment is riskier than having HIV so it's not done unless you have a cancer which is even deadlier

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chief_blunt9 Apr 14, 2026 +69

As someone who recently (100 days out) had a stem cell transplant for leukemia, they did make me sign a bunch of papers before I went through with it stating I had like a 5% chance of dying just from the treatment. Though my worst symptom was just constant diarrhea but that could have been from the chemo and not from the transplant itself. But good news it seems to have worked and I just got my biopsy results and I don’t have any leukemia in my body anymore.

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PhillipIInd Apr 14, 2026 +14

F*** yeah buddy

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chief_blunt9 Apr 14, 2026 +12

Thank you. I never truly got it when people said f*** cancer but fuckkkkk cancer. I’m 30 and got a cancer all my doctors said was the cancer I got was for people 65+.

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Different_Syrup_6944 Apr 14, 2026 +6

You beat the odds in more ways than one! Congrats. My brother also had a variant of Leukemia, and was able to beat it with a bone marrow transplant

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magdalen-alpinism Apr 15, 2026 +2

Awesome. full respect to you. Hope things continue to get better

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Snusirumpa Apr 15, 2026 +1

Good luck to you I wish you the best and good recovery

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fhota1 Apr 14, 2026 +10

Beating HIV hasnt been impossible for a while now. Like once we got over the Reaganite apathy because turns out not just gay people get it, we got AZT in 1987 which wasnt great but helped some and then HAART in 1995 helped a ton. Anymore we have drugs that can push the virus down to the point that its more or less asymptomatic and cant be transmitted. Some well directed and well funded programs with enough social buy-in could probably put HIV in the same status as Polio within a few generations

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DrFeelgood144 Apr 16, 2026 +1

HIV can be cured but why do so? I mean curing HIV would wipe out 100s of Billions in revenue for drug companies........ Let alone the income for 1000s of 'researchers'

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mikemunyi Apr 14, 2026 +72

Save you a click: Stem cell transplant to treat unrelated blood cancer.

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GodsCasino Apr 14, 2026 +9

THANK YOU

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kilar277 Apr 14, 2026 +1

So it was *an accident*?

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Naxis25 Apr 14, 2026 +15

Less an accident and more a known "benefit" of a very risky procedure done for cancers like this. There've already been a couple other people cured of HIV in the same way, but current antiviral regiments are just much safer than full on killing off your immune system (and red blood cell production) and replacing it with someone else's

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cryyingboy Apr 14, 2026 +31

imagine your brother just casually curing your hiv

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blackdarrren Apr 14, 2026 +2

All of the people around us, they say "Can they be that close?" Just let me state for the record We're giving love in a family dose

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