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_Published 2013-12-13. Researchers say a toddler born with HIV has been functionally cured of the disease. Could it lead to a cure for HIV?_


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## Transcript

>> It's a startling announcement. Doctors say they've cured a two- year- old in Mississippi of HIV. The infection she'd had since birth, gone.

>> You know, it's a fantastic news from any number of angles. Of course, that a child is being cured, that this actually happened really quite easily and quite inexpensively.

>> The cure came about as kind of a fluke. The baby was born to an HIV- positive mother, and the baby was HIV- positive, too. She was put on HIV drugs, but the mother, for some reason, stopped giving them to her when she was about 15 months old. She was taken back to the doctor just before her second birthday. And the doctor found the baby was HIV- free even though she'd been off medication for five months.

>> What fantastic news. This is something that I don't think anybody would have expected.

>> The key to success here might have been that the baby received relatively high doses of three HIV drugs soon after birth. Usually, HIV- positive newborns get low doses of one or two drugs after birth. If other babies could be cured after just 15 months on drugs, that would be huge. Now, HIV positive babies take these drugs for life, and they can be toxic. More studies need to be done, but this case may have inadvertently paved the way for other babies to have a brighter future. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.

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