Third person apparently cured of HIV using novel stem cell transplant

Patient is mixed-race woman treated in New York using umbilical cord blood, in technique raising chances of finding suitable donors

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Patient is a mixed-race woman treated in New York using umbilical cord blood, in technique raising chances of finding suitable donors.
She has been in remission from her leukemia for more than four years since the transplant in August 2017.
She is being called the ‘New York patient’ by scientists, because she received the treatment at the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The majority of donors in registries are of Caucasian descent.
As a result, allowing for only partial matches can open up the potential to treat patients who have both HIV and cancer, and also those who come from more diverse racial backgrounds.