# Baby Born With HIV Cured By Aggressive New Treatment

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**Created:** [March 4, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-born-with-hiv-cured-by-aggressive-new-treatment/651992 "2013-03-04T13:49:09Z")
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### Author: ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-born-with-hiv-cured-by-aggressive-new-treatment/651992/1 "2013-03-04T13:49:09Z")

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Just Amazing!

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> In an almost-unprecedented medical milestone, a baby born with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the precursor to AIDS, appears to have been cured of the infection after being treated with an aggressive new drug regimen.  
> Baby Born With HIV Cured By Aggressive New Treatment
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> It is only the second documented case of a person being entirely cured of HIV infection.
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> The case results were reported by researchers at a news conference on Sunday in advance of their presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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> The researchers announced that a Mississippi child born with HIV had been completely cured of the infection following birth about 2-1/2 years ago.
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> “You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we’ve seen,” Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told the Associated Press.
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> The mother of the baby was found to be HIV-positive during labor, causing doctors at a rural Mississippi hospital to drastically change their approach to the child during delivery. Soon after the birth, physicians began an intensive three-drug treatment much stronger than is typically recommended for an infant.

> **[Baby Born With HIV Cured By Aggressive New Treatment](https://www.ibtimes.com/baby-born-hiv-cured-aggressive-new-treatment-1109843)**
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> In an almost-unprecedented medical milestone, a baby born with HIV appears to have been cured by an aggressive drug treatment regimen.