While the sterile cure of HIV-1 patients is still extraordinarily rare, it has been achieved previously for very few patients including the two so-called Berlin Patients, one of whom had a preferential genetic background, more precisely the possession of the HLA-B*57 [45], and the other received a stem cell transplant from a CCR5-mutated donor after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia [46]. Here, CCR5 is linked to acute myeloid leukemia.