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Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by austinvsb1(m): 12:58pm On Jul 24, 2017
The secret to HIV cure lies inside the cow.

Only discerning scientific minds would understand






There is a reason Hindu Indians worship and treat 'mother' cows as sacred
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by luminouz(m): 12:59pm On Jul 24, 2017
Those words 'paradigm shift' annoy me....it usually means no cure has been found.....
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by luminouz(m): 1:00pm On Jul 24, 2017
YeyeGirl:
There is cure for hiv o shocked but all this doctors nd pharmacists sha need money badly shocked shocked... tnk God fr d boy's life sha kiss #Teamskin2skin# undecided
There is a cure already shocked
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Nackzy: 1:03pm On Jul 24, 2017
If this turns out to be true fornication and Adultery will be like eating food
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by COdeGenesis: 1:17pm On Jul 24, 2017
lonelydora:
Believe this at your peril. Gold Circle never pass 50 naira ooo.
Gold circle na 100 naira now per pack
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Nwabundo38(f): 1:17pm On Jul 24, 2017
NwaAmaikpe:
shocked
A cure should be found fast.

#TeamSkinToSkin
we still have herpes B and herpes C
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Nobody: 1:18pm On Jul 24, 2017
irepnaija4eva:
A South African boy, believed to have been infected with HIV around the time of his birth, has remained free of the virus for 8½ years after early treatment — renewing hope among scientists that such outliers may hold clues to help end the decades-old epidemic.

The case study, described by researchers before a presentation Monday at an international AIDS conference in Paris, suggests a paradigm shift in the treatment of those infected. It establishes that HIV may be controllable in some way other than a daily and lifelong regimen of antiretroviral drugs.

“This is really the first step toward HIV remission and a cure,” said Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. “Understanding the factors that came into play to lead to this outcome is really going to inform science.”

Out of the millions of children worldwide who are HIV-positive, the boy, now 9, is one of only three who have been identified by scientists as having the ability to stop the virus from resurging for an extended period of time.

Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, struck notes of both optimism and caution when speaking about him. Fauci described the child as being in “remission” rather than being cured. And while hoping the boy would never have an active infection in his lifetime, Fauci noted that HIV tends to hide in “funny places” and that it is “not entirely inconceivable” a small amount of the virus may remain in his body and start replicating again.

It is exciting to see this. It is encouraging to see a child going for such a long period of time without rebounding,” Fauci said. “But we don’t have the full answers to what this means yet.”

The first case of extended remission in a child was announced to great excitement in 2013. Startled researchers reported that a girl — who came to be known as the Mississippi baby — appeared to be “functionally cured” 23 months after stopping treatment. The celebration was premature, however: The virus returned shortly after that announcement, and the young girl had to be put back on medications. But her case brought to light the possibility of viral suppression in children and led to the funding of other research into the phenomenon.

The second case, reported in 2015, involved a French teen who underwent treatment from soon after birth to age 6 and whose blood continued to have undetectable levels of the virus for 12 years after stopping the drugs.

The South African boy came to the attention of researchers in 2008 through a larger study funded by the National Institutes of Health. It took place from 2005 to 2011 at hospitals near Johannesburg and Cape Town and involved nearly 400 HIV-positive babies.

Mark Cotton, a pediatric AIDS expert and one of the lead authors of the paper being presented Monday in Paris, explained that children were randomly put in one of three groups. One received the standard of care at the time, which was to start therapy only when the individual showed signs of becoming sick or evidence of a weakened immune system. The other two groups started treatment immediately after their HIV-positive status was confirmed, and stopped after 40 weeks or 96 weeks, respectively. The goal was to figure out whether early treatment was better than deferred treatment.

Cotton said the data appeared to show that children who had the virus rebound earlier had to go back on medication after a couple of weeks. But there was a huge surprise for subjects whose remission lasted longer, he said, with several children not needing to return for two or more years after 96 weeks of treatment.

For the 40-week treatment group, the average remission period was about 30 weeks; for the 96-week treatment group, it was about 70 weeks — although researchers caution that the results are still being analyzed and should be taken as very preliminary.

Yet the one boy is already considered a distinct outlier. Born to an HIV-positive mother, he was taken to one of the clinics in the study when he was about 8 weeks old. He began therapy when he had a relatively low viral load, and he took liquid antiretrovirals twice a day until he was about 48 weeks of age. By the time he was done treatment just before his first birthday, the viral load was undetectable, and year after year during follow-up visits, he continued to show no signs of an actively replicating virus.

One of the leading theories about how children in the study who had the longest remission might be different has to do with how their immune systems give them the power to suppress any rebound. Another factor may be that their very early treatment did not give the virus a chance to fully establish itself.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-hope-for-hiv-cure-as-child-remains-virus-free-years-after-final-treatment/2017/07/23/6a4e41ac-6fd8-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.9de945faebc0
Any thing from washingtonpost, New York time, CNN, msnmc, abc new are all fakenews.
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by sekem: 1:29pm On Jul 24, 2017
realestniggah:
good news

but that doesn't mean the united state goverment haven't found a cure all these years grin

maybe they are finally starting to have some form of humanity and are starting to release a cure

You're right

But I don't think it's a case of helping humanity

I think they have made enough profit from condom sales worldwide

It's time now to unleash another even deadlier virus
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Ohamzee: 1:32pm On Jul 24, 2017
Dongreat:
I thought there's already a cure through laying of hands, rubbing groundnut oil, drinking salt water and starving for seven days and seven nights?
We African got the cure already and no one is taking the glory from us. Too late white scientists who spend endless time on research, our cure is better grin
Wetin be ur own sef. see as u just carry the matter for head. dem ho u for lungs?
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by mekanaky: 2:14pm On Jul 24, 2017
lonelydora:
Believe this at your peril. Gold Circle never pass 50 naira ooo.
na 70box for my area

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Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by AmaechiLinus(m): 2:17pm On Jul 24, 2017
Fear no more

Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Andykruiz(m): 2:34pm On Jul 24, 2017
Please and please, remission is quite different from "cure". There is yet to be a cure for HIV (matter-of-factly, only one person, THE BERLIN PATIENT, has been "clinically cured" from HIV). Let's hope the child doesn't relapse. Selah!
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Prinzyy: 2:51pm On Jul 24, 2017
Evablizin:
Wow,this is really really wonderful
wonderful indeed,so u go dey do without......hehehe.......wink
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by HealthMatters16: 2:56pm On Jul 24, 2017
The cure for HIV has been there since. People are beginning o get cured and that is the reason why WHO has released the so-called "Super Bug Gonorrhea" to replace HIV/AIDS and kill people so as to make money. SMH!!

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Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by lonelydora: 3:34pm On Jul 24, 2017
mekanaky:
na 70box for my area

Why the extra 20 box nah? Maybe as Pad don go to 400 naira them too wan add small thing to condom. grin
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by MrHenshaw: 4:11pm On Jul 24, 2017
irepnaija4eva:
A South African boy, believed to have been infected with HIV around the time of his birth, has remained free of the virus for 8½ years after early treatment — renewing hope among scientists that such outliers may hold clues to help end the decades-old epidemic.

The case study, described by researchers before a presentation Monday at an international AIDS conference in Paris, suggests a paradigm shift in the treatment of those infected. It establishes that HIV may be controllable in some way other than a daily and lifelong regimen of antiretroviral drugs.

“This is really the first step toward HIV remission and a cure,” said Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. “Understanding the factors that came into play to lead to this outcome is really going to inform science.”

Out of the millions of children worldwide who are HIV-positive, the boy, now 9, is one of only three who have been identified by scientists as having the ability to stop the virus from resurging for an extended period of time.

Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, struck notes of both optimism and caution when speaking about him. Fauci described the child as being in “remission” rather than being cured. And while hoping the boy would never have an active infection in his lifetime, Fauci noted that HIV tends to hide in “funny places” and that it is “not entirely inconceivable” a small amount of the virus may remain in his body and start replicating again.

It is exciting to see this. It is encouraging to see a child going for such a long period of time without rebounding,” Fauci said. “But we don’t have the full answers to what this means yet.”

The first case of extended remission in a child was announced to great excitement in 2013. Startled researchers reported that a girl — who came to be known as the Mississippi baby — appeared to be “functionally cured” 23 months after stopping treatment. The celebration was premature, however: The virus returned shortly after that announcement, and the young girl had to be put back on medications. But her case brought to light the possibility of viral suppression in children and led to the funding of other research into the phenomenon.

The second case, reported in 2015, involved a French teen who underwent treatment from soon after birth to age 6 and whose blood continued to have undetectable levels of the virus for 12 years after stopping the drugs.

The South African boy came to the attention of researchers in 2008 through a larger study funded by the National Institutes of Health. It took place from 2005 to 2011 at hospitals near Johannesburg and Cape Town and involved nearly 400 HIV-positive babies.

Mark Cotton, a pediatric AIDS expert and one of the lead authors of the paper being presented Monday in Paris, explained that children were randomly put in one of three groups. One received the standard of care at the time, which was to start therapy only when the individual showed signs of becoming sick or evidence of a weakened immune system. The other two groups started treatment immediately after their HIV-positive status was confirmed, and stopped after 40 weeks or 96 weeks, respectively. The goal was to figure out whether early treatment was better than deferred treatment.

Cotton said the data appeared to show that children who had the virus rebound earlier had to go back on medication after a couple of weeks. But there was a huge surprise for subjects whose remission lasted longer, he said, with several children not needing to return for two or more years after 96 weeks of treatment.

For the 40-week treatment group, the average remission period was about 30 weeks; for the 96-week treatment group, it was about 70 weeks — although researchers caution that the results are still being analyzed and should be taken as very preliminary.

Yet the one boy is already considered a distinct outlier. Born to an HIV-positive mother, he was taken to one of the clinics in the study when he was about 8 weeks old. He began therapy when he had a relatively low viral load, and he took liquid antiretrovirals twice a day until he was about 48 weeks of age. By the time he was done treatment just before his first birthday, the viral load was undetectable, and year after year during follow-up visits, he continued to show no signs of an actively replicating virus.

One of the leading theories about how children in the study who had the longest remission might be different has to do with how their immune systems give them the power to suppress any rebound. Another factor may be that their very early treatment did not give the virus a chance to fully establish itself.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-hope-for-hiv-cure-as-child-remains-virus-free-years-after-final-treatment/2017/07/23/6a4e41ac-6fd8-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.9de945faebc0









Waiting when anyone can walk in and buy d medicine like antimalaria.
We will soon be there.
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by RapportNaija(m): 4:15pm On Jul 24, 2017
Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by Nobody: 7:41pm On Jul 24, 2017
irepnaija4eva:
A South African boy, believed to have been infected with HIV around the time of his birth, has remained free of the virus for 8½ years after early treatment — renewing hope among scientists that such outliers may hold clues to help end the decades-old epidemic.

The case study, described by researchers before a presentation Monday at an international AIDS conference in Paris, suggests a paradigm shift in the treatment of those infected. It establishes that HIV may be controllable in some way other than a daily and lifelong regimen of antiretroviral drugs.

“This is really the first step toward HIV remission and a cure,” said Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. “Understanding the factors that came into play to lead to this outcome is really going to inform science.”

Out of the millions of children worldwide who are HIV-positive, the boy, now 9, is one of only three who have been identified by scientists as having the ability to stop the virus from resurging for an extended period of time.

Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, struck notes of both optimism and caution when speaking about him. Fauci described the child as being in “remission” rather than being cured. And while hoping the boy would never have an active infection in his lifetime, Fauci noted that HIV tends to hide in “funny places” and that it is “not entirely inconceivable” a small amount of the virus may remain in his body and start replicating again.

It is exciting to see this. It is encouraging to see a child going for such a long period of time without rebounding,” Fauci said. “But we don’t have the full answers to what this means yet.”

The first case of extended remission in a child was announced to great excitement in 2013. Startled researchers reported that a girl — who came to be known as the Mississippi baby — appeared to be “functionally cured” 23 months after stopping treatment. The celebration was premature, however: The virus returned shortly after that announcement, and the young girl had to be put back on medications. But her case brought to light the possibility of viral suppression in children and led to the funding of other research into the phenomenon.

The second case, reported in 2015, involved a French teen who underwent treatment from soon after birth to age 6 and whose blood continued to have undetectable levels of the virus for 12 years after stopping the drugs.

The South African boy came to the attention of researchers in 2008 through a larger study funded by the National Institutes of Health. It took place from 2005 to 2011 at hospitals near Johannesburg and Cape Town and involved nearly 400 HIV-positive babies.

Mark Cotton, a pediatric AIDS expert and one of the lead authors of the paper being presented Monday in Paris, explained that children were randomly put in one of three groups. One received the standard of care at the time, which was to start therapy only when the individual showed signs of becoming sick or evidence of a weakened immune system. The other two groups started treatment immediately after their HIV-positive status was confirmed, and stopped after 40 weeks or 96 weeks, respectively. The goal was to figure out whether early treatment was better than deferred treatment.

Cotton said the data appeared to show that children who had the virus rebound earlier had to go back on medication after a couple of weeks. But there was a huge surprise for subjects whose remission lasted longer, he said, with several children not needing to return for two or more years after 96 weeks of treatment.

For the 40-week treatment group, the average remission period was about 30 weeks; for the 96-week treatment group, it was about 70 weeks — although researchers caution that the results are still being analyzed and should be taken as very preliminary.

Yet the one boy is already considered a distinct outlier. Born to an HIV-positive mother, he was taken to one of the clinics in the study when he was about 8 weeks old. He began therapy when he had a relatively low viral load, and he took liquid antiretrovirals twice a day until he was about 48 weeks of age. By the time he was done treatment just before his first birthday, the viral load was undetectable, and year after year during follow-up visits, he continued to show no signs of an actively replicating virus.

One of the leading theories about how children in the study who had the longest remission might be different has to do with how their immune systems give them the power to suppress any rebound. Another factor may be that their very early treatment did not give the virus a chance to fully establish itself.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-hope-for-hiv-cure-as-child-remains-virus-free-years-after-final-treatment/2017/07/23/6a4e41ac-6fd8-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.9de945faebc0




HIV is a scam.

HIV does not kill, the powerful anti retroviral drugs with deadly side effects written on it like liver damage n stuffs is what kills.
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Re: Child Treated For HIV At Birth Remains Virus-Free Years After Final Treatment by MrBigiman: 2:17am On Jul 27, 2018
NwaAmaikpe:
shocked
A cure should be found fast.

#TeamSkinToSkin
NwaAmaikpe! May u live long

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