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Re:Stem cells reverse woman's diabetes – a world first by wombatpm on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:21PM (#41665355)
I’m surprised more people didn’t try that route earlier. Step one in stem cell transplant for leukemia it to kill all existing immune cells. HIV hides in immune cells.

I think too many HIV patients were too compromised by opportunistic infections to ever be healthy enough for stem cell transplants

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Re:Stem cells reverse woman's diabetes – a world first by Projectiboga on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:42PM (#41666054)
Nowadays many hiv positive individuals are in better than average health. And a fluke for the ones diagnosed with AIDS they enjoy a slightly longer than average lufe expectancy. This is part a survivor bias, where only the fittest of tgat cohort survived. It is also due to their being eledgable for medicaid with double the income of anyone else.
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