"City of Hope Patient" Who Achieved HIV Remission Shares His Story

He's being called the "City of Hope Patient."
In July 2022, City of Hope announced that a 66-year-old man who had been HIV-positive for over 30 years had gone into remission for acute myeloid leukemia and HIV thanks to a transplant using stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation, homozygous CCR5 Delta 32. The mutation makes people who carry it resistant to acquiring HIV. Of the five people in the world who have achieved remission for both diseases after receiving a transplant with the rare mutation, the man was the oldest in the group and the person who had had HIV the longest.
At the time, Paul Edmonds, 67, of Desert Hot Springs, California, wished to remain anonymous. But now he is telling his story.
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