Scientists say a baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured thanks to faster and stronger treatment than is usual for newborns.
ATLANTA -- Scientists said a baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured thanks to faster and stronger treatment than is usual for newborns.
Scientists at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta say the Mississippi child is now 2½ and has been off HIV drugs for about a year with no signs of infection.
If the child remains healthy, it would mark only the world's second reported cure. Specialists say it offers promising clues for more research to fight pediatric HIV.
"Standardly in the U.S., we don't really give treatment as early as this child received therapy. We wait to know whether the child is infected or not, and that can take sometimes up to four to six weeks to be able to identify an infected child," said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Medical Center. "So this case is distinct because the therapy was started so early."
Sunday's announcement in Atlanta suggests giving high-dose treatment right after birth wiped out HIV before it could form hideouts in the body that usually reinfect anyone who stops medication.
The baby was born to an HIV-infected mother who stopped giving her child medication at 15 months. She went back to the birthday around the child's second birthday.
"The mom admitted that she had not been giving the medicine for the past several months, and I fully expected the baby's viral load to have gone back up," said Dr. Hannah Gay, Pediatric HIV Specialist with the University of Mississippi Medical Center. "But when we drew the test, we got back still an undetectable viral load."
(Associated Press)
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