At that panel, an HIV-positive parent was joined by doctors from Boston’s Bedford Research Foundation Clinical Laboratory and its Special Program of Assisted Reproduction (SPAR), which, for over 10 years, has been the go-to sperm-testing and “washing” center for HIV-positive men looking to have their own biological children without risk of infecting the gestational surrogate or the child.
Science Highlights – June 2010: Curing HIV Disease With Stem Cell Therapy
Over 50 years ago, treatments for some diseases of the immune system were developed, and are the original stem cell therapies. The treatments involve destroying all the diseased immune cells, such as leukemias, with radiation treatment and cancer drugs. (6,7,8). Once the diseased immune system is destroyed, it is replaced by transplanting new immune cells from the bone marrow of a healthy donor. (read more )