Marrow transplants cure AIDS

An American man with AIDS appears to have been cured 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia.
While his doctors and AIDS researchers caution the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims two million lives a year.
The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
The American man who is living in Berlin, had been living with AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer showed signs of the virus. He had stopped taking conventional AIDS medication. "We waited every day for a bad reading," the doctor of the American man said. But the bad reading did not come.
Researchers in Berlin's Charite Hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues showed no sign of AIDS.
What do you think? Maybe those tests were probably not extensive enough right? But if it's really because of the marrow transplant, should we say that AIDS carrier has now more hope to get rid of the virus? Hopefully. According to a doctor, a lot of scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say that the AIDS virus is not present.
Marrow transplants have been used before to treat AIDS and HIV.