HIV by way of stem cell transplants for blood cancer, in this case, acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Monica Gandhi, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Chief (Clinical Operations/ Education) of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital, said these findings are really a “proof of concept” in the wake of the other cases of stem cell treatments pulling double duty of curing both blood cancers and HIV at the same time. ”For the relatively high number of women of color living with HIV, this latest news also offers hope that underrepresented populations in medical research won’t be left out in the cold