Mar 4, 2013

In the United States year-old child is no cure for HIV


In the U.S. state of Mississippi recorded cumulative treatment of HIV infection. Year-old girl was lucky. Doctors explain the treatment that the girl took a few powerful drugs at birth.
Doctors from Mississippi (USA) announced the miracle happened. From human immunodeficiency virus completely cured year-old child, who was born with the disease.

According to Wall Street Journal, a cure for HIV girl, whose age - two and a half years. Doctors believe that it happened after the aggressive drug treatment, which began immediately after the birth. Doctors performed highly active antiretroviral therapy, which is the simultaneous reception of three or four drugs.

Doctors risk their license, as such therapy is usually not carried out since the first days of life of patients with HIV. The fact that a precise diagnosis is possible only after four to six weeks after birth. But this time, the doctors decided to take a chance. The World Health Organization declared that now can be changed the whole system of registration and treatment of hundreds of thousands of children born with unfortunate virus. If the effectiveness of the new treatment system will be confirmed, it can get a great spread. The Wall Street Journal reminds us that this is not the first time to cure HIV infection. In 2007, a man managed to heal, he transplanted bone marrow. The operation took place in Berlin.

As for the year-old girl, something about her healing became known after a recent analysis. Their study showed that the baby's body is no more traces of HIV. Scientists say that this is incredible. Baby took a course of aggressive therapy. She then it stopped, then patients usually die within two to three weeks. But she instead fully recovered. However, this is an isolated case, so do not claim that they found a new treatment for AIDS.

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