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"HIV patient ‘cured’ herself without treatment, study suggests An Argentinian woman appears to have been naturally “cured” of HIV despite not being on medication, according to scientists who hailed the case as a “rare” hope for the nearly 38 million people infected with the virus.

The 30-year-old mom has been dubbed the “Esperanza patient” after the town where she lives — and whose name fittingly means “hope.”

The patient was diagnosed with HIV in 2013, according to research published Monday in the “Annals of Internal Medicine.”

She never felt sick or took medication, and a battery of recent tests did not find the virus, “despite analysis of massive numbers of cells from blood and tissues,” the study said.

The findings suggest “that this patient may have naturally achieved a sterilizing cure of HIV-1 infection,” the co-authors wrote.

“These observations raise the possibility that a sterilizing cure may be an extremely rare but possible outcome of HIV-1 infection,” the study concluded.