First case of ever curing a newborn of HIV. Not yet confirmed by peer-review, but the report is authored by a professor from one of the top hospitals in the country - John Hopkins Hospital. Results are to be fully presented at the CROI in the next day or two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/health/for-first-time-baby-cured-of-hiv-doctors-say.html?r=0

yeah the fruitcakes are already claiming god did it.

Makes sense. Let's wait for a few millions people to get infected and then cure one baby. Someone tell the Africans to pray harder.

If the report is confirmed, the child born in Mississippi would be only the second well-documented case of a cure in the world. That could give a lift to research aimed at a cure, something that only a few years ago was thought to be virtually impossible


cool heard about this today for like 1 sec on cnn

iirc the article said this treatment would not work on adults.

Well, it may work for adults who were recently infected. So it may not work for adults who have been infected for years.
I think more importantly, though, is that this is another major step in research, not just an end result in itself. Also, we may never find a cure for adults, but we may be able to eliminate the virus after several generations.

they also cured rats from it before.

well and most humans u can get the virus load cose to zero with the HAART cocktail or whatever the name was.
but if u stop medication it rises again. also the meds have nasty side effects.

main problem nowadays are the people who see that there virus load is close to zero, then stop the meds and then the virus becomes more resistant to treatment if they are unlucky.

This post was edited by YaC on Apr 19 2013 09:19am

It's something though

lol doctors name is Hannah B. Gay lol

oh wow !