{"id":109781,"date":"2020-07-10T16:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T23:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-stem-cell-transplant-has-cured-two-hiv-patients"},"modified":"2020-07-10T16:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T23:44:25","slug":"a-stem-cell-transplant-has-cured-two-hiv-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-stem-cell-transplant-has-cured-two-hiv-patients","title":{"rendered":"A Stem Cell Transplant Has Cured Two HIV Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-stem-cell-transplant-has-cured-two-hiv-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been traced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-aids-origins\/hiv-pandemics-roots-traced-back-to-1920s-kinshasa-idUSKCN0HR26220141002\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as far back as a century ago<\/a>, but it wasn\u2019t identified until the 1980s, when it captured public attention for causing a sweeping wave of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/gho\/hiv\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">32 million people<\/a> have died from HIV and AIDS, which is the term for the range of conditions caused by the virus. A cure for HIV has so far been elusive, but hope has flickered anew because two people who received a stem cell transplant are now clear of the disease. Hope, though, can be held with only great reservation because of beliefs in previous efforts for a cure that failed. Not to mention, stem cell transplants are risky for those who don\u2019t have cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Still, any bit of hope for an end to HIV means that work for a cure continues apace, giving the nearly 38 million people living with the disease something to hold onto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been traced as far back as a century ago, but it wasn\u2019t identified until the 1980s, when it captured public attention for causing a sweeping wave of deaths. About 32 million people have died from HIV and AIDS, which is the term for the range of conditions caused by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}