Scientists Report First Cure of HIV In A Child, Say It's A Game-Changer

[Charles Kozierok]

Pretty amazing stuff:

Scientists believe a little girl born with HIV has been cured of the infection.

She's the first child and only the second person in the world known to have been cured since the virus touched off a global pandemic nearly 32 years ago.
Doctors aren't releasing the child's name, but we know she was born in Mississippi and is now 2 ½ years old – and healthy. Scientists presented details of the case on Sunday at a scientific conference in Atlanta.

The case has big implications. While fewer than 130 such children are born each year in the U.S., an estimated 330,000 children around the world get infected with HIV at or around birth every year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

And while many countries are striving to prevent these mother-to-child infections, many thousands of children will certainly get infected in coming years.
Until now, such children have been considered permanently infected. Specialists thought they needed lifelong antiviral drugs to prevent HIV from destroying their immune system and killing them of AIDS.

I don't have much to add to this other than "wow". Nice to see some good news for a change.

 

[Brainonska511]

I saw the articles on that and they leave me very skeptical. There is no information as to whether the child was initially infected. It only stated that there was a 20-30% infection rate when prenatal anti-retroviral therapy is not used.