摘要
THIS year＇s International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Preven-／tion, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, made major headlines when Timothy Hendch, an American doctor, announced that two more cancer patients may have been cured of HIV after receiving bone-marrow transplants to treat lymphoma. Both patients had been taking retroviral medication, and continued to do so after the transplants as their viral levels sank until doctors were unable to find any traces of HIV in the patients＇ blood.
THIS year＇s International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Preven-／tion, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, made major headlines when Timothy Hendch, an American doctor, announced that two more cancer patients may have been cured of HIV after receiving bone-marrow transplants to treat lymphoma. Both patients had been taking retroviral medication, and continued to do so after the transplants as their viral levels sank until doctors were unable to find any traces of HIV in the patients＇ blood.
