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Researchers Describe First 'Functional HIV Cure' In an Infant
An anonymous reader writes in with news of a breakthrough in the treatment of HIV. "A baby born with the AIDS virus two years ago in Mississippi who was put on antiretroviral therapy within hours of birth appears to have been cured of the infection, researchers said Sunday at a scientific conference in Atlanta. Whether the cure is complete and permanent, or only partial and long-lasting, is not certain. Either way, the highly unusual case raises hope for the more than 300,000 babies born with the infection around the world each year."
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The article makes it sound like the baby might never have been infected to begin with.
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That's awesome news. HIV is almost the ultimate disease, getting the immune system to turn against itself, so it's really awesome that at least cures are starting to look in the right direction, even if it's not lifelong it's at least a step in the right direction.
This is fantastic news, and offers the beginning of a glimmer of hope across the world. Transferring these benefits to sub-Saharan Africa (for example) will require incredible changes to drug marketing/profit-making, but also cultural changes. Ultimately this would have massive positive economic benefits in this region, but the political will and strength required to make this available is immense.
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To cure adults... Kidding aside, this would be great news... for rich people in developed countries. And after 20 years everybody everywhere.
Having said all that, I believe it when I see it.
While having an HIV-infected mother may give an impression of irresponsibility, there are people out there with no history of promiscuity or drug use that have caught HIV for many different reasons. I won't make judgements based on this.
But the following two newspaper quotes caught my attention.
BBC:
The treatment was continued for 18 months, at which point the child disappeared from the medical system. Five months later the mother and child turned up again but had stopped the treatment in this interim.
Washington Post:
"The child’s mother began missing appointments after a year. At 18 months, the child was no longer on treatment. When the child was brought back to the clinic at 23 months, the viral load was still undetectable, “very much to my surprise,” Gay wrote.
It strikes me as wildly irresponsible to the point of criminal neglect to miss medical appointments for your HIV-infected child. It does not appear as if she was told it was ok not to turn up for these appointments. After all, the doctors expected the HIV infection to return if the drug treatment wasn't kept up. If this had happened, and the child had died, I would have expected the mother to be prosecuted for manslaughter.
I can't help but think of the economic outcome of procedures like this once it becomes FDA-approved, mainstream treatment.
Anti-HIV drugs are outrageously expensive, partly because it's a long-term treatment. Incurring this expense at birth would severely affect one's ability to earn a decent living later on, even before being hit my student loans, mortgage, etc.
A new generation of complete povery is imminent.
http://www.tig.org.za/The%20trouble%20with%20nevirapine.pdf
That is the sort of poison they gave to that baby.
Most of you don't even know what 'AIDS' is, either.
Try reading 'Science Sold Out' by Rebecca Culshaw. The HIV industry is the most shocking example ever of the corruption and dishonesty within modern 'science'.
We may never see a cure for any of the illnesses out there. Big Pharma makes more money on treating than curing.
raises hope for the more than 300,000 babies born with the infection around the world each year.
Especially when the majority of these infants are born in "third-world" countries, where people can't afford the basic stuff like food and water, they'll be able to cure their infants with this new treatment because the big pharmas will provide it for free. Can't wait for this to happen, along with the sun rising from the west
http://youtu.be/JdrcOGoszlE
...since that is outside the scope of a medical case study, and would be an extreme violation of confidentiality if it were made public.
It's certainly possible that some sort of state intervention occurred. From what we know, (A) the mother had HIV (B) mother and child received no prenatal care and (C) the mother failed to bring the child in for appointments and (D) at some point, the child was returned to care.
I don't mean to make any moral judgement calls, but that sequence of events strongly speaks for a mother and child among a vulnerable or marginalized population group. At the very least, we can assume poverty and lack of education. Very likely one or more of prostitution, drug use, or homelessness; unauthorized immigration status may also be a factor.
What do you expect?
Sorry, but it's been known for YEARS that babies can retro-convert even after a year. This is not new material. And I don't believe them when they claim it's all the anti-viral drugs pumped into this new born!
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They usually do care about your post-birth life... right up until it is ascertained whether you will be a willing wage slave or not.
If you can't provide a profit for the insurance company paying for your meds then they want you dead in order to save money. Everyone go google up the monthly/yearly cost of Atripla (one of the most widely used one-pill-a-day medications for HIV) and then go ask ten people you know if they would be willing to pay for that medication for someone is currently unemployed or can't otherwise afford it for themselves (you may exclude children from this calculation at your discretion).
Africans? Americans? Chinese? Who should be provided free* medications -- and why?
And how much does, say, Atripla actually cost to make? Is it really $800 PER PILL? Or are we in "The West" scalped because it's expected that we can afford it?
And then you can generalize this harsh lesson in cost-of-living to things that everyone you talk to will have an interest in... like food. And shelter.
Hopefully the parallels don't need to be drawn any more clearly in order to see that we (the whole damn world) need a very serious change in how the economic system works.
Which is something I would throw this into a pile of all the other crap science I read about on a day to day basis...(i.e. Climate Change Carbon Credit Exchanges will save the world!!!)
So let me get this straight, they "SAY" the infant is cured, but can't say:
1) Why
2) How Long
3) or even if it is complete or partial
If you cannot make the most BASIC presumptions about the HIV status of an infant, after spending billions and decades of dollars on the problem the science is nothing but a institutional brain washing of the public.
I am sorry, but there is almost no difference between the guy I just posted about who "tinkered" with 3D printing and considered an amateur because he didn't want to do Mathematics and therefore is named a "undergraduate". Yet somehow, researchers are not undergraduates and post crap like this after decades of research, billions of dollars and seemingly can't even track the disease in the organism it spent billions on researching?
Crap science.
Sort of like listening to climate idiots talking about humans and animals on the planet have to die because CO2 is a poison and it is killing the planet, with PhD's and research that is suppose to be scientific, yet the same research can't even tell me what the wether is going to be like a week from now.
Yet, somehow we are suppose to kill ourselves because in 70 some years the earth will be dead.
BULLSH*T, CRAP SCIENCE.
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They shouldn't have published these results.
This will just lead to irresponsible behavior in infants.