Mississippi Girl [HIV Returned]

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Mississippi girl [HIV returned]

An immunodeficiency virus was again found in the blood of a four-year-old who was believed to be cured of HIV infection, Reuters reported. The stunning story of a Mississippi girl, reported at a medical conference in March 2013, marks the first time an HIV-infected child has been “cured” with aggressive therapy, starting 30 hours after birth.

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An immunodeficiency virus was again found in the blood of a four-year-old child, who was considered cured of HIV infection, informs Reuters. The stunning story of a Mississippi girl, reported at a medical conference in March 2013, marks the first time an HIV-infected child has been “cured” with aggressive therapy, starting 30 hours after birth.

The case raised hopes that the roughly 250,000 HIV-infected children born worldwide each year can be cured. Those hopes were dashed when the child's doctors discovered last week that the virus had begun to replicate in his body again. “Of course, this is a disappointing turn of events for this young child, the caregiver and the entire scientific community studying HIV and AIDS,” said Professor Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases in the United States.

This girl was born prematurely at a Mississippi clinic in 2010 to an HIV-infected mother who did not receive antiretroviral therapy during her pregnancy. Three potent antiretroviral drugs were administered to the infant 30 hours after birth.

The child was treated for 18 months. Several weeks after the cessation of therapy, tests did not reveal the presence of a virus in the body of a small patient, and this result persisted for more than two years (within 27 months), until the doctors revealed a relapse during a routine examination last week. The girl is now being treated with antiretroviral drugs, which, apparently, she will have to take throughout her future life.