First Documented Case of Child Cured of HIV

[Jredbaron96]

First documented case of child cured of HIV

Mar. 3, 2013 — Researchers today described the first documented case of a child being cured of HIV. The landmark findings were announced at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta, GA.

There of course, needs to be more testing, but this is promising news. If there's reason to rejoice these days, this is it.

 

[MaggieD]

First documented case of child cured of HIV

There of course, needs to be more testing, but this is promising news. If there's reason to rejoice these days, this is it.

So here's the deal: this baby was born of a mom who had HIV. She'd received no pre-natal care; the baby was delivered normally. Normally, tests to see if a baby has contracted HIV from its mom during the birthing process take weeks (or more). The doctors decided to begin treating the baby immediately, as if she HAD the HIV virus, and then discontinue the treatment if it was found the baby didn't have the virus. (The baby later tested positive for HIV.) Because they elected to treat immediately -- BEFORE the virus had a chance to replicate up the wazoo -- they were able to (they think destroy the viral cells that can replicate....leaving only rogue viral cells that, hopefully, the body will kill off -- or that will die naturally.

This bodes very well for new births, in my opinion. For regular HIV patients? Notsomuch. They're filled to the brim with the virus and this "new treatment" is new only from the standpoint of when it begins.

Just FYI -- heard one of the doctors involved interviewed on the radio this afternoon.

 

[mak2]

Hope this is true.