HIV cured in a child

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/free/20130303hiv-cured-in-child.html

For the first time, doctors are reporting that they have cured a child of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The landmark finding will help scientists better understand the nature of HIV, doctors say, and could potentially help countless HIV-positive babies in developing countries.

"I'm sort of holding my breath that this child's virus doesn't come back in the future," says Hannah Gay, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who treated the child, a 2½-year-old Mississippi girl. "I'm certainly very hopeful that it will produce studies that will show us a way to cure other babies in the future."

Experts note that the girl's story is also unique — involving a string of unusual events — and won't immediately lead to a cure for the 34 million people living with HIV worldwide.

 

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Who knows how many others may have been cured since the test is to stop taking the meds then test for virus? What mother or father wold sit still for that?
Actually, this one did because she fell out of contact for a month then when found said the kid had been off meds for longer than that.



And what's with Magic Johnson anyway?