The first long-term cure of AIDS in France
French girl born with HIV did not need treatment for 12 years!
In a unique news, the longest case of a French girl (18 years) of HIV / AIDS was recorded after receiving treatment in her first 6 years. "It gives hope to scientists who are looking for a cure for AIDS," said experts from the French Fistère Institute, who presented the story at a conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The girl was born infected with the virus, and was treated until she was six years old, and then noticed that the symptoms of the disease is no longer and then poured, and stopped the spread of the virus and development in her body, for 12 years of treatment stopped. This is the first case of long-term AIDS.
The researchers believe that this is the only case recorded for a girl treated for as long as possible and at an early age, using antiretroviral therapy drugs that prevent the spread of the virus and stop development, without the ability to eliminate it.
The virus is believed to have been transmitted during pregnancy or during the delivery process from its infected mother, and then immediately given a drug designed to prevent the spread of the virus. The treatment was then continued until the age of six, using a strong combination of antiretroviral therapy, With the cessation of symptoms and non-spread of the virus in the body of the girl, and remained after the scientists are concerned about the resumption of renewed infection, but with the observation for 12 years of stopping the treatment turned out to have been cured.
In a previous case in 2013 in Mississippi, a child who had been cured for 27 months of the AIDS virus after extensive treatment, the disease soon returned and symptoms returned. In other cases they used the same types of antiretroviral drugs, which were observed to decrease the spread of the virus and symptoms in their body. Without healing!