SA Girl Becomes Third Child to Beat AIDS Virus Into Long-Term Remission
- Publisher:
- SABC
- Publication Date:
- 24 July 2017
- Tags:
- Southern Africa, Children and Youth, HIV-Aids and STDs
A South African girl has become only the third child to beat the AIDS virus into long-term remission after receiving a drug cocktail in her infancy. She's now almost nine years old. For more we are speaking to Dr Glenda Gray, the executive director of the Pediatric HIV Research Unit based at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Dr. Gray is speaking to us from Paris, France, where she is attending the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.
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