In a remarkable medical development, a man in Norway — dubbed the “Oslo patient” — has achieved remission from HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant intended to treat an aggressive blood cancer. Diagnosed with HIV in 2006, he received the transplant in 2017. Doctors initially sought a donor carrying the CCR5 gene mutation, which allows the immune system to clear the virus. The case adds to a small but growing roster of functional HIV cures, offering hope — even as experts caution that the risky procedure is not scalable as a treatment for the roughly 39 million people worldwide living with HIV.
Science’s Latest Breakthrough: The “Oslo Patient”
