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South Africa: Child Born With HIV Goes Into Remission
Nation, 25 July 2017
A nine-year-old South African child born with HIV has been able to control the virus without drugs for 8.5 years, scientists have reported. Read more »
A nine-year-old girl who was diagnosed with HIV at one-month old and put on anti-retroviral treatment has shown signs of suppressing the virus. This is the first case for Africa and the third globally.
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. ... see more »
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