Doctors Say Baby Born With HIV Has Been Cured
A 2-year-old Mississippi girl is the first child to be “functionally cured” of HIV, researchers announced Sunday.
Researchers said they believe early intervention — in this case within 30 hours of birth — with three anti-viral drugs was key to the outcome.
A “functional cure” is when the presence of the virus is so small, lifelong treatment is not necessary and standard clinical tests cannot detect the virus in the blood.
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