The 44-year-old social worker is one of 50 patients having the treatment that can kill the virus.
He is making “remarkable progress” and has no signs of HIV.
If successful the “kick and kill” treatment could provide an irreversible cure for HIV.
The patient, from London, said: “My last blood test was a couple of weeks ago and there is no detectable virus.
“We’ll have to wait to be sure.”
The trial by the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure comes after research from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial College London, University College London and King’s College London.
Mark Samuels, managing director of NOCRI, said: “This is a huge challenge and it’s still early days but the progress has been remarkable.”
HIV targets T-cells in the immune system.
Currently HIV is treated with anti-retroviral therapies which hold back infection but do not destroy dormant cells waiting to spark into life.
British man ‘could become first person in the UK to be cured of HIV’
03 October 2016
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A BRITISH man could become the first to be cured of HIV — using a therapy developed by five UK universities.
