This girl gives hope for Aids virus cure
paris — A South African girl has become only the third child to beat the Aids virus into long-term remission — al- most nine years and counting — after receiving a drug cocktail in infancy, researchers announced on Monday.
The child was given a 10-month course of anti-Aids medicine until she was one year old, then taken off the drugs as part of a medical trial.
Eight years and nine months later, the virus is still dormant and the girl healthy without needing treatment, a research team reported at the International Aids Society conference on HIV science in Paris. —