A two year-old child born with HIV infection and treated with antiretroviral drugs beginning in the first days of life no longer has detectable levels of virus using conventional testing despite not taking HIV medications for 10 months. These findings, presented at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, is the first well documented case of an HIV-infected child who appears to have been functionally cured.
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NIH press release
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