Baby girls 2 years be cured of HIV

   

The HIV virus attacks the immune system

 

At the time of birth, the mother of this baby have HIV-positive test results. Therefore, people who are treated for HIV before pregnancy . So, the doctor said the baby is at high risk of HIV infection.

 

Then the baby was transferred to the medical center of the University of Mississippi. Here she was BS. Hannah Gay, pediatric HIV specialist for user coordination 3 standard used drug treatment for HIV as soon as a new 30 hours old, even before having the test results confirm the status of HIV infection itself baby.

 

BS Gay said about his decision: "I just felt the baby is at risk of higher than normal and have for kids best treatment".

 

Baby 2 years and a half now live in the State of Mississippi (the USA) and have stopped smoking for about a year. Although to date there is no sign of infection, but the researchers said it still needs to do more testing to see if the treatment has similar effects to other children or not.

 

"Perhaps the drug has cleared HIV before it up form the form can take refuge in the body. These cells contain the dormant virus could rise if the patient stops taking the drug, "DR. Deborah Persaud, a virus specialist, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA), who presented the findings at the workshop in Retroviruses and opportunistic infections in Atlanta, said.

 

If she remains healthy then this will be the second disease case was reported in the world.

 

BS. Deborah Persaud, said: "this is the basis for the view that can contain from HIV in older groups".

 

Before that, in 2007, Timothy Ray Brown became the first person in the world is said to have been cured after being infected with HIV. The status of HIV infection be cured after treatment of leukemia, including stem cell grafts taken from the person carries a rare genetic mutation of HIV resistance.