Doctors from Barcelona might have just found the cure to the HIV virus which causes AIDS. The doctors took on the local news site ‘The Local’ to report their invention.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), reports that more than 34 million people worldwide suffer from the killer virus.
The doctors said they can cure HIV by using blood transplants from the umbilical cords of individuals with a genetic resistance to HIV. This comes after the doctors proved their experiment to be successful by using one patient.
A 37-year old Barcelonan man suffering from HIV was reported healed of the virus after receiving a transplant of blood. This motivated the doctors to repeat the procedure with another HIV patient identified as Timothy Brown, who also suffered from Leukemia and received experimental treatment in Berlin. He received a bone marrow from an HIV resistant. He was reported by ‘The Local’ healed of both cancer and HIV.
The doctors have called the findings a big step of development in the search for the HIV cure. They have set March 2016 to be the world’s clinical trials of umbilical cord transplants for HIV patients who are also suffering from blood cancer. They speculate that they can now cure the virus.