Jul 03
It’s turning into quite a year for HIV treatment. First a baby girl was functionally cured
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Jun 12
Doctors have made leaps and bounds with curing patients of HIV, but today, an equally-groundbreaking study has proven that emerging preventative treatments are even more effective than previously thought.
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Apr 11
Remember DVD players? Well, looks like they won’t be going the way of VHS tapes and cassettes (ask your parents) just yet. Because researchers have just figured out a way to turn them into affordable, blood-analyzing, cellular-imaging, laser-scanning microscopes capable of completing HIV tests in mere minutes. More »
Mar 04
Baby With HIV Cured
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A team of researchers has documented a case in which a baby born who was born with HIV out of the mother’s womb has been “cured” of the condition using a combination of aggressive drug treatment (“cured” means that the HIV virus can no longer be detected after the end of the treatment). Apparently, the baby was put on antiretroviral therapy within hours of birth, and at a scientific conference in Atlanta, there were no detectable levels of the HIV virus in the baby’s body. It remains to be seen whether this “technical cure” as doctors call it is complete and permanent, but at least it offers a glimmer of hope for over 300,000 babies who are born with HIV worldwide each year.
In fact, this happens to be the first time that an HIV infection has been deemed to be “cured” by drugs (with enough scientific documentation), where the other only known cure of a case of HIV infection happened half a dozen years ago. An American man who lived in Germany received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor who happened to have a rare HIV-resistance mutation in his cells. Well, Katherine Luzuriaga, a physician at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, someone who was closely involved in the baby’s care, said, “We are calling this a ‘functional cure,’. Time and further investigation will tell us whether this child actually has been cured or not.”
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Mar 03
A Baby Has Been Cured of HIV
Posted in: Today's Chili
It may sound hard to believe, but doctors from Mississippi are saying that for the first time, an infant has been cured of an HIV infection. The New York Times relays reports from doctors who say the infant had tested positive for HIV on five separate occasions and now, at age two and a half and off drugs for an entire year, the child shows no signs of the virus in its body. More »
Dec 10
Cancer and HIV are both horrible, terrifying things to have in your body, but a new treatment is successfully pitting the latter against the former, and seven-year-old Emma Whitehead is alive to prove it. Months ago she was near death because of her chemo-resistant leukemia, and now she’s in remission thanks to a defanged version of HIV. More »
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