Second woman spontaneously cleared HIV
A 30-year-old Argentinian woman from the aptly named village of Esperanza(hope), spontaneously cleared HIV which she has been living with for 8 long years. She appears to be the second person whose immune system cleared the virus without the use of stem cell transplantation. Last year, the first was Loreen Willenberg, a California woman who, after living with HIV for 27 years, no longer had replicating HIV in her system. The Esperanza Patient is among a rare group of people living with HIV called elite controllers. Their own immune systems seem not only to have stopped HIV replication outside of reservoirs but also to have stormed those reservoirs and killed all virus that might have continued to replicate. By: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWnXsVHLMh1/?utm_medium=copy_link
