Harvard researchers identify second person whose immune system appears to have naturally cured HIV

The patient's first child is healthy and HIV-free; she is expecting a second child, indicating the virus did not transmit vertically despite her infection.

In the Argentine city whose name means hope, a woman's immune system appears to have done what decades of medicine could not — quietly, without drugs or intervention, it seems to have eliminated HIV entirely. Harvard researchers, after scanning over a billion cells and finding no trace of active virus, have identified her as only the second known person to achieve what scientists call a natural cure, joining a vanishingly rare group whose bodies possess some still-mysterious capacity to defeat one of humanity's most persistent adversaries. Her story does not yet offer a treatment, but it offer

Harvard researchers identify second person whose immune system appears to have naturally cured HIV

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