NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE (NIAID)
A combination of three anti-retroviral drugs appears to have nearly completely eliminated HIV from a Mississippi infant born with the virus. This is the first “well-documented case of a functional cure” of HIV in a child, according to researchers and doctors who presented the findings at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Researchers yesterday (March 4).
"We expect that this baby has great chances for a long, healthy life. We are certainly hoping that this approach could lead to the same outcome in many other high-risk babies," Hannah Gay, a professor of pediatrics and doctor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center where the infant was treated, told The Guardian.
In 2010, the child’s mother checked into a rural Mississippi hospital about to ...
