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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/blood-transplant-cures-man-of-hiv.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="An American man living in Germany appears to have been cured of his infection with the Aids virus" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-blood-transplant-cures-man-of-hiv.jpg" alt="An American man living in Germany appears to have been cured of his infection with the Aids virus"/></a></p>
<p>An unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the Aids virus.</p>
<p>The man, who is in his 40s, had a blood stem cell transplant in 2007 to treat leukaemia. His donor not only was a good blood match but also had a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to HIV.</p>
<p>Now, three years later, the recipient shows no signs of leukaemia or HIV infection, according to a report in the journal Blood.</p>
<p>However, doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an interesting proof-of-concept that with pretty extraordinary measures a patient could be cured of HIV,&#8221; said Michael Saag of the University of Alabama, but he added that it is far too risky to become standard therapy even if matched donors could be found,</p>
<p>He is past chairman of the HIV Medicine Association, an organisation of doctors who specialise in treating Aids.</p>
<p>Transplants of bone marrow &#8211; or, more commonly these days, blood stem cells &#8211; are carried out to treat cancer, and their risks in healthy people is unknown. It involves destroying the person&#8217;s native immune system with powerful drugs and radiation, then replacing it with donor cells to grow a new immune system. Mortality from the procedure or its complications can be 5% or more, Dr Saag said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t really apply this particular approach to healthy individuals because the risk is just too high,&#8221; especially when drugs can keep HIV in check in most cases, Dr Saag said. Unless someone with HIV also had cancer, a transplant would not likely be considered, he added.</p>
<p>When the Berlin man&#8217;s case first surfaced two years ago, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the procedure was too expensive and risky to be practical as a cure but that it might give more clues to using gene therapy or other methods to achieve the same result.</p>
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