The Mississippi baby who had been
"functionally cured" of her HIV infection now
has detectable levels of virus. It's a sad turn
of events, but not necessarily a surprising
one.
You can read more about the Mississippi
case in Popular Science's 2013 explainer. In
short, the baby received an aggressive
course of standard anti-retroviral treatment
just 30 hours after she was born. Then,
because her mother stopped bringing her to
the doctor, she didn't get treated for a few
months. Yet once doctors saw her again,
they found no evidence that HIV was
replicating in her blood—an unprecedented
result. So researchers began hoping that
perhaps aggressive early treatment could
help other babies born with HIV. They set up
a clinical trial to test this.
At the same time, the Mississippi baby's
doctors did find fragments of HIV DNA in her
blood, a sign that she could still be infected.
Commentators warned how unlikely it
was this was a true, lifelong cure. Surely the
girl's doctors knew this, too. It was a watch-
and-wait situation, but everyone was
hopeful.
Now, the girl is almost four years old and
she's having "an unequivocal relapse" with
significant numbers of virus in her blood, as
AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told the New
York Times. Her caretakers can still manage
the virus with anti-retrovirals, but if her
infection is like others' and HIV treatments
don't improve, she'll take those drugs for the
rest of her life. That's not a terrible fate—
many folks in the U.S. live with HIV—but it
has its challenges.
Researchers will now reconsider how they'll
run the clinical trial they set up for other
babies born with HIV, the New York Times
reports.

Source: www.popsci.com/article/science/baby-who-beat-hiv-months-no-longer-remission?src=SOC&dom=fb

there is hope

Onlinebizexpert: there is hope

yeah. It means we will soon get there. Soon, the definite cure will be found

If HIV get cure, a very big Gbege go dey, it will put some people out of business(oyinbo) and fornication will be high increase(ashawo). Anyway I wish girl all the best

We're almost there..




But why should this poor lad suffer for what she know nothing of... denying her the choice to dictate how she want her life to be.

Life could be cruel sometimes.

just as it was with gonorrhea, one day its cure will surface

Aw so sad JUST WHEN IT SEEMED ALL was WELL

Failed experiment

worlexy: yeah. It means we will soon get there. Soon, the definite cure will be found

I believe

Chai, make another research commence for the real cure... Abi the baby own nah extra-ordinary?

Video showing a Fake Pastor who Paid a church Member to act as a cripple for Fake Miracle

Where do this viruses come from?...now sweeping westafrica and God forbid ghana or Nigeria is the NOmerciful Ebola virus...yikes jesu lahor oh !

Sad news

Just pray she doesnt hv to live with tht 4d rest of her life. "Sins of d parents"

This story initially gave hope to HIV infected people around the world that a cure is around the corner, now this.

worlexy: yeah. It means we will soon get there. Soon, the definite cure will be found

You sound hiv positive

If its "resurfacing" that means it wasn't "cured" before.

eyah

It's a pity some people have little or no choice about what lead to their predicaments.... I pray God grant science breakthrough on this menace called HIV!

Hackerjay: Chai, make another research commence for the real cure

It has been undergoing ever since the disease appeared. Let's jst hope we get there soonest. For every disease there is a cure only dat it takes a while to be discovered.

There is hope! I believe someday d world will be free from this deadly HIV


I feel 4 d little baby!

Those doctors should be sacked, when their colleagues were busy enjoying the medical strike, they wete busy going about scaring a young girl with HIV

Yungwizzzy: [size=45pt]Nigerian girls you can see HIV has no cure

That thing you are doing because of Brazilian hair

You will soon die!! [/size]

and i guess you will live forever since you are negative smh

In order to completely eradicate HIV from an infected patient, it will require complete inhibition of viral replication in all cell lines and body stores where the virus resides. But the problem is that some cell lines have shorter half-lives than others and some long infected T-cells with half-lives lasting more than 6 to 44 months have been identified hence this may require complete suppression of the virus for about 60 years or more. Another problem is that the virus resides in sites that achieve low antiretroviral concentrations such as the central nervous system. So once therapy is discontinued, these sites theoretically release unaffected virions and re-populate the host. Nevertheless, we keep hope alive. One day the breakthrough will come.

Na wa o

Lord God.

very soon i fit nyash any babe without that yeye rubber

All is well