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Title: Doctors "functionally cured" a baby born with HIV.
Post by: riazur on May 06, 2015, 01:51:32 PM

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Researchers believe that starting an aggressive antiretroviral treatment within 31 hours of the infant's birth — an unusually early start for treatment — allowed the baby's body to fight off the HIV virus.

Now, at two-and-a-half years old, the child was found to have no signs of the virus in its bloodstream, even after being taken off drugs. A group of adults with HIV in France who started taking drugs very early on were also successfully taken off medication.