HIV Cure In The Works?

A recent news story on television caught my eye so when I saw this article I knew I had to do a blog about it. At a recent conference doctors stated that they have completely cured a child born with HIV. The child was born to a mother who had received no prenatal care and had no idea she was HIV positive. So when the child was born positive doctors administered the three anti-retroviral drug to the newborn in hopes of reversing the virus. After 18 months the mother stopped giving the child the medicine. The doctors expected the HIV to return but to their dismay it did not. They believed it worked because it hindered the virus before it was allowed time to make reservoirs in the child's body. Their next step is to see if they can repeat this process in other babies with this disease. 
Although this is super relevant to our society as much this discovery could possibly help much of the third world countries today. By having cure to this disease for children  it would ultimately lead to a cure for the adult version as well. The amount of people effected by this would detrimentally decrease and hopefully eradicate one of the biggest crisis' facing many nations today.
It is really important that this be proven to work multiple times and not just on this one child. By having it implemented on many children and work this would be one of the largest breakthrough's in science to probably ever come in our lifetime. I know that although it's not as prevalent in the US the amount of change it could to in just one country could turn things around for the better. 

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34593/title/Mississippi-Infant-Cured-of-HIV-/