Doctors cure AIDS in an infant

Doctors in the United States announced this week that a baby had been cured of an H.I.V. infection by an aggressive treatment of antiretroviral drugs soon after birth.
The United Nations estimates that than three million children globally are living with H.I.V., and more that 300,000 babies were born with infection every year. The treatment on this one child began just a day after his birth, much earlier than treatment usually begins for an infant.
“Surely this case…opens a whole new perspective for research, and opens a hope that many children can be treated immediately after their birth, and that therefore the infection will not have an opportunity to destroy the immune system in the child,” said Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, Special Advisor on HIV and AIDS for Caritas Internationalis.
“I think it is very important that we do not jump to conclusions based on one case,” he told Vatican Radio.
“Much more research will be necessary on many cases, and also we will need to be sure more and more children are treated immediately after birth rather than waiting a longer period of time and giving the infection to progress in the body,” he said.
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