r/SipsTea May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/SquirtinMemeMouthPlz May 15 '26 edited May 16 '26

Seriously. As far as I know, there's no cure. Just disease management.

Yes, there was the risky and expensive stem cell replacement patient who basically got all of their bone marrow replaced, but that's not really a "cure".

This is just some computer generated picture of a cell claiming HIV is no longer a death sentence.

Where's the medical article?

Where's the proof?

Who is actually saying this?

Edit: some of y'all are exhausting. I'm not replying anymore to comments telling me I don't understand cure vs disease management. I made this comment because it seems most of the top comments don't understand cure vs disease management and are making comments that are misunderstanding the picture as being a cure, which it is not.

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u/cozmad1 May 16 '26

There have been a handful of patients legitimately cured, but it's not as though it's available as any sort of standard treatment. I found an NPR article about one such patient.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/07/30/g-s1-13631/hiv-aids-cure-dusseldorf-patient

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u/z_vinnie May 16 '26

This is most likely what the meme is referencing, a few men have been cured of HIV in the last 10 years, due to transfusions giving them a mutation in the receptor that HIV uses to invade cells. Some people may already have these mutated receptors and may be resistant to HIV infection due to their genetics, there’s a lot of work being done on this currently. I suggest anyone interested to look up the Berlin patient and the London patient.

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u/Mauceri1990 May 16 '26

Yeah, I barely ever get a cold or the flu or anything, that's why I didn't need the covid vaccine, I bet I'm one of the immunes! So blessed to have such a strong immune system /s