HIV 'cure' in infancy, caution experts
- Published: 5 Mar 2013 at 02.49
- Online news: World
AIDS experts cautioned Monday against hype of a cure after doctors in the United States suppressed HIV in a child born with the virus by administering a potent drug cocktail shortly after birth.
Children watch TV at San Jose orphanage for abandoned, HIV-positive children in Guatemala on November 30, 2012. AIDS experts cautioned Monday against hype of a cure after doctors in the United States suppressed HIV in a child born with the virus by administering a potent drug cocktail shortly after birth.
The possible breakthrough may hold promise for about 330,000 children the World Health Organisation (WHO) says are born every year with the virus that causes AIDS.
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