A little girl in South Africa has been “virtually cured” of HIV after being given a cocktail of drugs as a baby, doctors have revealed. She has become only the third child to “beat” the Aids virus into long-term remission. The child was given a ten-month course of antiretroviral medication until she was one-year-old, and then taken off the treatment 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. “This new case strengthens our hope that by treating HIV-infected children for a brief period beginning in infancy, we may be able to spare them the burden of life-long therapy,” said Aids expert Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which funded the study. READ MORE.
While it is great that she’s not having symptoms, she is not “cured”. Viruses go dormant all the time, whenever there is a threat to them. So long as we rely more on drugs to “cure” us than the weapons God gave us? Disease will keep winning. Have a blessed day.