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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by Diggity on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:02PM (#16064520)
1% of Caucasian population

(http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news13)

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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by asdfaefasdf on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:06PM (#16064549)
That's actually about 2x the population of the US with HIV. Relatively speaking, it's not that rare comparatively.
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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by Diggity on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:17PM (#16064648)
If bone marrow donations for all caucasians were mandatory I would agree.
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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by dm319 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:52PM (#16066658)
You also need them to be an HLA match as well as being on the bone marrow transplant register.
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