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The Berlin HIV Patients: "Cured"

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Here's a pair of terms medical science has long sought to put in the same sentence: HIV and cure. 

Not only sought, but succeeded. 

Two men identified as "The Berlin Patients" received treatments that banished the Human Immunodeficiency Virus from their bodies. 

Nathalia Holt, herself a research scientist working on HIV, tells the story of the two men and their treatments in Cured.
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.