Is it a miracle?

 

CNN has reported that a French teenager infected at birth with HIV has shown the ability to control the levels of infection of her body without being on antiretroviral treatment since age six.

The female, now 18, has been in remission for 12 years now, which means that she has maintained undetectable levels of the virus in her blood.

The seemingly natural ability of the teenager to control HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS, has provided hope that a “functional” cure for HIV may one day be possible. A functional cure is one where the virus is brought down to low levels but not totally eradicated

"This is the first [time] long-term remission has been shown in children, or adolescents," said Asier Saez Cirion who presented the findings at the 8th IAS conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention, in Vancouver this week.

The teenager contracted HIV from her mother who was HIV-positive during her birth. –End-

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