In New York surprising news came on Sunday, March 3, 2013. A medical team announced the possible cure of HIV, making a leap in the treatment of children and newborns, and the patient who has the first cure, have only 2 ½ years and his treatment started with retrovirals less than 30 hours after birth. According to doctors, the case is "functional cure", where the rates of the disease are negligible, and therefore undetectable in tests, although they exist.
The case is the first step in working with other children, creating the possibility of a better, possibly drug-free and even prejudice-free childhood for those already born infected. Has the baby been out of medication for 1 year and has no infection, and treatment has blocked the formation of reservoirs that are difficult to treat? inactive cells responsible for restarting problems and infection in patients. According to Dr. Deborah Persaud, who teaches at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and one of the report's lead authors, the case proves that HIV can potentially be cured in newborns and that the disease may eventually have a cure if they can replicate. the case.
The research went public on Monday and according to the doctors involved, the baby was already infected by birth, with confirmation of 5 tests done (if the baby was infected after, would be a case of prevention, which would not be an innovation because this method already exists). After treatment began, tests showed a drop in blood virus levels compared to other infected patients.
The baby was born prematurely and the mother did not know she had the virus, nor did she consult a doctor during her pregnancy, which she spent in rural Mississippi. When a case of an infected baby occurs during pregnancy, the common procedure is the dosing of two prophylactic drugs, in this case, Dr. Hannah B. Gay, applied a 3-drug regimen, and surprisingly, 5 months after starting treatment, the exams were negative.
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