They cured another baby with AIDS

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Nine-month-old baby may have been cured of HIV, U.S. scientists say
BOSTON Wed Mar 5, 2014 6:46pm EST
(Reuters) - A 9-month-old baby who was born in California with the HIV virus that leads to AIDS may have been cured as a result of treatments that doctors began just four hours after her birth, medical researchers said on Wednesday.

That child is the second case, following an earlier instance in Mississippi, in which doctors may have brought HIV in a newborn into remission by administering antiretroviral drugs in the first hours of life, said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatrics specialist with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, at a medical conference in Boston.

"The child ... has become HIV-negative," Persaud said, referring to the 9-month-old baby born outside Los Angeles, who is being treated at Miller Children's Hospital. The child's identify was not disclosed.

That child is still receiving a three-drug cocktail of anti-AIDS treatments, while the child born in Mississippi, now 3-1/2 years old, ceased receiving antiretroviral treatments two years ago.

Both children were born of mothers infected with HIV, which wipes out the body's immune system and causes AIDS.

Speaking at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Persaud credited the early use of antiretroviral therapies with improving the children's health but warned that more research must be done.

"Really the only way we can prove that we have accomplished remission in these kids is by taking them off treatment and that's not without risk," Persaud said. "This is a call to action for us to mobilize and be able to learn from these cases."

The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, surfaced more than 30 years ago and now infects more than 34 million people worldwide. Prevention measures, including condoms, have helped check its spread and antiretroviral drugs can now control the disease for decades, meaning it is no longer a death sentence.
 

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I am starting to believe the alternative AIDS hypothesis crowd. It's like AIDS just went away. Now they are claiming to straight up cure it. The main thrust of the alternative hypothesis is that AIDS didn't operate the way they say it does in the official literature. People whith AIDS but no HIV, people with HIV who never got AIDS. People who slept with HIV carriers multiple times and never got it.. Iono Brehs. S*** went away almost too easily.
 

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They will never cure AIDS. the big pharma companies knows how much money they will stand to lose on a cure if it is found and given to the people. What the old saying "the money is in the medicine not the cure..."
 

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I am starting to believe the alternative AIDS hypothesis crowd. It's like AIDS just went away. Now they are claiming to straight up cure it. The main thrust of the alternative hypothesis is that AIDS didn't operate the way they say it does in the official literature. People whith AIDS but no HIV, people with HIV who never got AIDS. People who slept with HIV carriers multiple times and never got it.. Iono Brehs. S*** went away almost too easily.

whats the alternative AIDS hypothesis :patrice:
 

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so they found a way to kill a virus?
 
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