A patient at Geneva University Hospital is considered cured of HIV. This was made possible by a bone marrow transplant. Until now, only five people worldwide were considered cured of HIV infection after a bone marrow transplant.

The Geneva patient had been living with HIV since the early 1990s. To treat a particularly aggressive form of leukemia, he underwent a stem cell transplant in 2018. One month after the transplant, tests showed that the patient’s blood cells had been completely replaced by those of the donor.