U.S.: Baby cured of HIV

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Source: http://www.kens5.com/news/health/Bab...195124711.html


Baby apparently cured of HIV "deserved our best shot," says doctor
by CBS News
Posted on March 4, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Updated today at 4:10 PM

The news that a baby who was born with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to be cured and medication-free more than 2.5 years later has sent ripples through the scientific community.

Researchers on Sunday reported that a doctor started a baby from Mississippi on an aggressive three-drug HIV treatment regimen within only 30 hours of birth. That atypical treatment appeared to remove the virus completely from the baby's bloodstream before it could form disease reservoirs, which are HIV-infected dormant cells that can rapidly re-infect a person once medication is stopped, explained Dr. Deborah Persaud, an associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Children's Center who led the investigation into the child's case...

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5 Things You Should Know About The Baby Cured Of HIV
Early treatment answers some questions, raises others
By Emily Elert Posted 03.04.2013 at 4:28 pm
1. The baby girl was cured with standard anti-retroviral drugs.
When the baby was born in a Mississippi hospital in 2010, pediatric specialist Hannah Gay began treating her with three anti-retroviral drugs just 31 hours after she was born. This combination treatment has been around since the mid-1990s, and remains the biggest breakthrough in the fight against a disease that has claimed tens of millions of lives over the past few decades...