It's being called a medical breakthrough.<br/> <br />Researchers announced Sunday they had effectively CURED an infant of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.<br/> <br />Doctors at this Mississippi hospital placed the baby girl on a cocktail of drugs within 30 hours of birth -- instead of a single drug normally given to babies with HIV.<br/> <br />That strong and EARLY intervention nearly eradicated the virus from her body, says Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Children's Center.<br/> <br />"The child remains off of anti-retroviral therapy and is doing well. So we believe that perhaps the initiation of very early anti-retroviral therapy prevented the formation of the viral reservoirs in central memory CD4T cells that are the barriers to a cure and really sets the stage for a pediatric cure agenda going forward."<br/> <br />More testing still needs to be done.<br/> <br />But if researchers can replicate the Mississippi baby's treatment, it could mean the eradication of HIV in its youngest victims.
