Toddler 'functionally cured' of HIV infection, NIH-supported investigators report
Monday, March 4, 2013 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
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 medication for 10 months, according to findings presented today at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta.