The London patient had gvhd also. From what I quoted wiki, they may be the key why this works sometimes and doesn’t sometimes, as I read this has been tried a few times and failed until now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Ray_Brown

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Brown suffered from could have been what eliminated the HIV virus from his system.

As of 2017, six more people also appear to have been cleared of HIV after getting graft-versus-host disease; only one of them had received CCR5 mutant stem cells, so it appears that when a transplant recipient has graft-versus-host disease the transplanted cells may kill off the host's HIV-infected immune cells

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https://mobile.twitter.com/BritishHIVAssoc/st...4079608832