Middle-Aged Woman Believed to Be Third Patient Cured of HIV Following Stem Cell Transplant

A middle-aged woman is believed to be the third patient cured of HIV, scientists say.
A Wednesday report from the Washington Post states that the mixed-race woman received a stem cell transplant harvested from an infant’s umbilical cord blood ahead of her potential curing.
The virus, according to the report, has been in remission for four years, and she has not taken an antiretroviral drugs for the infection in 14 months.