Remission in a Child Born with HIV Raises Hope for AIDS Cure

in medicine •  7 years ago 

Patients treated for HIV must usually continue the antiretroviral treatment for life. If they stop treatment, they tend to suffer an increase in the amount of the virus circulating in their body.

However, a South African child born with HIV surprised experts by appearing to be effectively cured of HIV after just one year of treatment followed by 8.5 years without treatment.

This is a rare phenomenon that has occurred only in a few patients, but it raises hopes that a definitive cure for AIDS may be possible in the future.

Source: The Telegraph

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Thanks for sharing .......Sharon Lewin, an HIV expert at the University of Melbourne and co-chair of the IAS's HIV Cure and Cancer forum, said the case threw up possible insights into how the human immune system can control HIV replication when treatment is interrupted.

HIV is a bloody it give us first lazy then after slowely it go us to death..thanx for sharing @ghamesmkiani...and also for upvote me and appriciate me i aslo upvoted u ur all posts and i will always upvote u everyday..thanx alot

have a good day @ghasemkiani

HIV doesnt kill u directly it kills by decreasing ur immune n making u susceptible to other infections... so. glad to hear this news

It gives hope. It's a horrible disease.

Good news then.

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