Over the last 25 years, the fight against HIV has seemed hopeless. Every attempt at a vaccine or cure has failed miserably. Sometimes in science breakthroughs happen inadvertently. An AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia seems to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days despite having ceased all conventional AIDS medication.

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