Posted on 06/28/2013 4:22:18 PM PDT by neverdem
Clinical trial will aim to replicate virus-expunging therapy that worked in US infant.
HIV-positive mothers who take antiretroviral therapies while pregnant can be prevented from transmitting the virus to their babies 99% of the time — a resounding success story in the decades-long fight against the virus. But what about infants whose mothers do not receive the drugs? Energized by the case of the ‘Mississippi baby’ — who seemed to be cured of HIV after aggressive treatment was begun within hours of birth — researchers are hoping to show that these infants, too, can get off to a healthy start.
At a symposium on HIV cure research on 29 June at the International AIDS Society’s biennial meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, investigators will describe how they are racing to design a clinical trial to test whether the early treatment works, and why. They hope to treat the first babies by the end of this year.
The trial, sponsored by the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Group, marks a change for the field: so far, most research worldwide has focused on adults. In 2012, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, spent US$18 million on HIV cure research in adults and adolescents, and just $45,000 on children. Yet 3.3 million children worldwide have HIV.
“Children have been an afterthought,” says Jeffrey Safrit, director of clinical and basic research for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, who is based in Los Angeles, California. “But the immune system of the child might be more easily manipulated to allow a cure.”
This was highlighted in March, when virologist Deborah Persaud of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland, announced that a baby in Mississippi who received treatment for HIV within 31 hours of birth stopped...
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They’ll soon learn that they can inject fetuses with the virus and harvest them for a cure. Watch and see.
Uh.... Millions of babies have already been ripped piece by piece from the womb with the state's blessing. Are you kidding?
Globalism uses HIV “cure” work to take over the medical industries of target nations.
It’s too bad about the women and the babies. It’s a shame they are vulnerable... It’s also collateral.
However, I don’t see a cure of HIV to be a good thing.
The state is living on borrowed time. None can presume the state to be eternal. One abomination too many and the state will fall.
“Why not?”
Because there should and always will be consequences for your choices in life. This is just one of them.
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FReepmail me if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.
The same activities that brought about AIDS will only contribute to new deadly diseases in the future. Viruses can change into new diseases over time.
Ramped up more than before? Ok, so how many more tax dollars are they wanting?
It would be wonderful if a cure was found for HIV. And, wouldn’t it also be wonderful if the same energy, desire was applied to find a cure for cancer. yes, i know ‘things’ are much better than they were except that’s not so apparent when you lose someone you love to that dreaded disease. If a cure can be found for HIV, why not cancer?
I couldn’t answer your question, but I do know that there would be far more money for cancer treatment if the promiscuous mended their ways.
Why not go to the source and work to cure homosexuality and drug addiction?
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