Baby Carrier Successfully Cured HIV

VIVAlife - A baby girl who was born in Mississippi with HIV, are now declared cured. According to doctors at the center of the University of Mississippi, is a medical history has ever seen. Where they can cure HIV disease in total.


At birth, the baby was immediately treated with antiretroviral drugs from the first 30 hours of birth. If further research proves the same thing in other infants with HIV, is a sign of a chance of cure for infected pregnant women.

"This is evidence that HIV can be cured in infants," said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore told Reuters.

Dr. Persaud and several other scientists say, since the baby's birth indeed brought the HIV virus. Ironically, the mother who had never handled her pregnancy by her doctors did not know if they are infected.

In five tests at the age of 1 month, found the four tests of the viral RNA and DNA tests. When the treatment is done, the level of virus in the blood of babies is decreasing. Now, an unnamed infant had more than two years old and was cleared of the virus.

Previously, Timothy Ray Brown, touted as HIV patients who survived. He received a bone marrow transplant from a donor who is genetically immune to the HIV virus.

Sources: http://life.viva.co.id/news/read/394872