Baby with HIV cured

[JsMom]

Baby with HIV cured … ‘functionally’

(CNN) – A 2-year-old Mississippi girl is the first child to be “functionally cured” of HIV, researchers announced Sunday.
Researchers said they believe early intervention — in this case within 30 hours of birth — with three anti-viral drugs was key to the outcome.
A “functional cure” is when the presence of the virus is so small, lifelong treatment is not necessary and standard clinical tests cannot detect the virus in the blood.
The finding was announced at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.

Video at link below~
http://kdvr.com/2013/03/04/baby-with-hiv...ctionally/

Wow! What are your thoughts?

[ramseycat]

Hmm interesting.

[HairOfTheDog]

If it can be confirmed that the baby was born with HIV, this is a really encouraging development.

I read a piece about it in the NY Times yesterday. I wasn't aware of the number of babies born with HIV per year. According to the article, there are over 300,000 worldwide, and more than 3 million children living with HIV (United Nations' estimates).

I was hoping that the potential advancement could also be applied to treatments for adults with HIV/AIDS, but doesn't look like that's the case.

Ref:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/health....html?_r=0