Have doctors finally found a cure for HIV?

UK patient ‘free’ of disease after stem cell treatment

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A UK patient has become only the second case in the world to be declared “free” of HIV following stem cell treatment, raising the possibility of a cure for the disease which affects close to 37 million people worldwide.

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