A woman from the Argentine city of Esperanza recovered from HIV without medication
Argentine woman from the city of Esperanza, who was diagnosed with HIV eight years ago, recovered him naturally without medication, writes the Daily Mail.
A 30-year-old woman learned about her diagnosis in 2013. For the first eight years, she suffered from HIV and did not receive any medication, except for six months when she was pregnant. Doctors prescribed drugs, fearing that the disease would pass to the baby. As the experts clarified, this is the second case when the human immune system was able to cope with HIV on its own. A similar precedent was registered in 2020 in the United States – 67-year-old Lorin Willenberg “recovered” from HIV without therapy.
Earlier, Russian scientists have developed a new method of treating HIV patients. HIV patients have to take medications for the rest of their lives, and the risk of unwanted side effects increases.
This is because the vast majority of treatment regimens include tenofovir, which is toxic to the kidneys and causes a decrease in bone density. The new method developed by Russian scientists involves the transition from a triple system of treatment to a double one. The first six months of therapy includes tenofovir, and then patients exclude it and take dolutegravir and emtricitabine.