{"id":33898,"date":"2017-07-26T11:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=33898"},"modified":"2017-07-26T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:48:48","slug":"story-of-nine-year-old-girl-cured-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/story-of-nine-year-old-girl-cured-of-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"STORY OF NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL \u201cCURED\u201d OF HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HIV\/AIDS is one of the most dreaded diseases in today’s world due to its incurability, but research is fast making grounds in finding a cure.<\/p>\n

A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa, the BBC<\/em><\/strong> report.<\/p>\n

The child, whose identity is being protected, was given a burst of treatment shortly after birth.<\/p>\n

The child has since been off drugs for eight-and-a-half years without symptoms or signs of active virus.<\/p>\n

The family is said to be “really delighted” with the health of the child.<\/p>\n

The child caught the infection from the mother around the time of birth in 2007. They had very high levels of HIV in the blood.<\/p>\n

Early antiretroviral therapy was not standard practice at the time, but was given to the child from nine weeks old as part of a clinical trial.<\/p>\n

Levels of the virus became undetectable, treatment was stopped after 40 weeks and unlike anybody else on the study – the virus has not returned.<\/p>\n

Most people need treatment every day to prevent HIV destroying the immune system and causing Aids. But this child has been without treatment since she was a toddler and researchers now believe this could create new grounds in the research to eliminate HIV.<\/p>\n

Prof Diana Gibb, who is based in London, told the BBC News website: “It captures the imagination because you’ve got a virtual cure and it is exciting to see cases like this.<\/p>\n

“But it is important to remember it is one child.<\/p>\n

“HIV is still a massive problem around the world and we mustn’t put all our eyes on to one phenomenon like this, as opposed to looking at the bigger issues for Africa.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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