http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...59748.html
A baby who was born with HIV 2 1/2 years ago seems to have developed to the point where the virus is having no real effect on her. Doctors simply started her on an aggressive anti-HIV medication regimine 31 hours after birth and kept it up for a while. Now treatment has stopped, but the child has shown no symptoms usually associated with HIV.
This is on top of the Berlin patient from a while back, a man who recieved a bone marrow transplant which seemed to cure him of HIV. Another two men from Boston may be on the same path. They contracted HIV, they stuck with their medication but had to get a bone marrow transplant. Now doctors are seeing something similar happen with their viral count. Only time will tell these guys are cured as well.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/27/...g-20120727
Could we actually have a treatment option for HIV that could actually cure the virus? This is more than a little exciting.
A baby who was born with HIV 2 1/2 years ago seems to have developed to the point where the virus is having no real effect on her. Doctors simply started her on an aggressive anti-HIV medication regimine 31 hours after birth and kept it up for a while. Now treatment has stopped, but the child has shown no symptoms usually associated with HIV.
This is on top of the Berlin patient from a while back, a man who recieved a bone marrow transplant which seemed to cure him of HIV. Another two men from Boston may be on the same path. They contracted HIV, they stuck with their medication but had to get a bone marrow transplant. Now doctors are seeing something similar happen with their viral count. Only time will tell these guys are cured as well.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/27/...g-20120727
Could we actually have a treatment option for HIV that could actually cure the virus? This is more than a little exciting.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
