A man has been declared HIV-free, in a case that “upends our understanding of what’s required” for a cure, according to The New Scientist . He was the seventh patient found to be clear of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant – and, significantly, the second of the seven to receive stem cells that were not actually HIV-resistant. If HIV-resistant cells aren’t necessary to destroy the virus, then scientists have greater options in their search for an effective but less risky cure.

And yet, just as medics make such leaps forward in HIV/Aids treatment, access to both preventive care and medicine for infected patients “remains far from universal”, said The Guardian . Foreign aid cuts have shaken “to its core” the “complex eco-system that sustains HIV services in dozens of low

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