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Post-Treatment HIV-1 Controllers with a Long-Term Virological Remission after the Interruption of Early Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy ANRS VISCONTI Study

Our results show that early and prolonged cART may allow some individuals with a rather unfavorable background to achieve long-term infection control and may have important implications in the search for a functional HIV cure.

Published
15 March 2013
From
PLoS Pathogens
The search for a cure
More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

Two weeks after the revelation that a baby has been "cured" of HIV, reports suggest that a similar treatment can cure some adults too. Early treatment seems crucial, but does not guarantee success.

Published
15 March 2013
From
New Scientist
The search for a cure
AIDS treatment Visconti’s coup

If the common factor between so-called post-treatment controllers can be identified, it will allow doctors to offer treatment withdrawal to those likely to benefit from it. It will also show researchers a chink in AIDS’s armour. If they can find something which they can insert into that chink to clear the disease in other people, too, the Visconti trial may come to be seen as a turning point in the war on AIDS.

Published
15 March 2013
From
The Economist
HIV prevention policy
Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin: Five myths about AIDS

1. The case of the Mississippi baby means we’re close to curing AIDS. 2. AIDS is the leading killer of babies worldwide. 3. Mothers with HIV should never breast-feed. 4. Drugs are the key to preventing HIV’s spread. 5. AIDS can’t be defeated.

Published
12 March 2013
From
Washington Post
The search for a cure
Next Steps for HIV Research After Toddler Functionally Cured

The headline-grabbing case of a 2-year-old child functionally cured of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is making international news and has delegates talking here at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

Published
10 March 2013
From
Medscape (requires registration)
The search for a cure
Behind the miracle child a broken system lurks

While we celebrate this week’s story of an HIV-miracle cure, let’s not forget the story of injustice that made it possible. How is it possible for a pregnant woman in the world’s wealthiest country to not receive prenatal care? Why were the mother and child “lost to care” for over 6 months?

Published
07 March 2013
From
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Finance and funding
HIV 'cure' at risk from budget cuts

The automatic cuts in federal spending known as sequestration could take a bite out of crucial medical research, such as the recently unveiled study in which a toddler was cured of HIV.

Published
06 March 2013
From
CNN
The search for a cure
Reports of 'HIV cure' are premature

Global news coverage has been dominated by the potentially groundbreaking news that a child born with HIV appears to have been ‘cured’ of the infection. The findings do not mean that a complete cure for HIV has been discovered.

Published
05 March 2013
From
NHS Choices
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Is the HIV 'functional cure' the breakthrough it seems?

There is already a way of preventing mother to child infections using drugs – which is far better than a functional cure using similar drugs. The excitement of the Mississippi case is in what it tells scientists trying to figure out how to cure HIV. Any practical applications are a long way further down the line.

Published
05 March 2013
From
The Guardian
Cardiovascular disease
HIV Drugs Ease Inflammation in 'Controllers'

Putting HIV controllers -- who ordinarily don't need therapy -- on highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) appeared to reduce markers of chronic inflammation, a researcher said here.

Published
04 March 2013
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
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