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HIV virus cleared completely ?

Please  can someone help me here. ? A friend suffering of hiv and hepatitis C was taking a traditional treatment for the cure of hepatitis C , surprisingly when he went for control  for his hiv  2 months  ago , the viral load went down from 3562550 to 140 ul/ml yesterday he tested for hiv test and it was negative . Hepatitis C still positive, RNA negative , genotype 4f.
I don't know if really someone  had been cured of this virus before  ?
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Wow susan, that's a real good news for your friend. And perhaps something that the medical field should look at and see how this will benefit others.

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Even his Doctor at CHU is confused , because the test 'HIV' is negative , the doctor asked him to do it again in an other lab and it still reveals negative , the doctor adviced him to do it again after 2months .
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Hepatitis C can be cured if caught early enough with traditional medicine. HEP C now has a full cure that's very expensive. If, for HIV, his RNA is undetectable,/negative after having a viral load above 3 million, he just has the virus under control with HAART. He is still HIV positive. HIV antibody persist for life and does not go away.
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No , that is an old cure , i'm telling you of something very recent
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Here i found it tHe guy was called the berlin patient.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Berlin_Patient
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There was one case were a guy was healed from HIV. There was a statistic which says that every 100th person in europe is immune from HIV. Its a rarly gene i think which got caused by the pestilence in the medieval ages. They used it to heal that guy.
Maybe your friend is one of them.
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