New, intensive trials planned on heels of Mississippi HIV ‘cure’
ATLANTA — Until recently, the medical community held a consensus that children born with HIV might be obliged to take antiretroviral drugs for the rest of their lives. But the announcement made last week that an infant in rural Mississippi who stopped receiving medicine at 18 months of age and has since lived for a year with no measurable viral RNA in the blood is prompting HIV experts to question the conventional wisdom. Read more
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