Scientists in United States have been able to successfully treat a child born with HIV Infection. The Infant now 2½ years old is fully safe and  has not shown any sign of Immunodeficieny.
This is for the first time that such a  successful treatment of HIV has been reported  and it  could easily pave a way to treat HIV + Patients in near future.
The Result  was revealed at a Conference at 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta recently. The successful treatment was undertaken by a Team of Scientists led by  Deborah Persaud, M.D., a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, and Katherine Luzuriaga, M.D., an immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School,
The infant patient was born to a mother who was HIV-positive. Combination antiretroviral treatment was administered 30 hours after birth. A series of staggered tests showed that the viral presence in the infant’s blood diminished; by the time the baby was 29 days old HIV was undetectable. Antivirals were administered until the baby was 18 months old, “at which point the baby was lost to follow-up for a while” – effectively, treatment stopped.
Ten months after treatment had been discontinued, the patient underwent a series of blood tests. However, according to all the tests, the child was HIV free.
Dr. Persaud said “Our next step is to find out if this is a highly unusual response to very early antiretroviral therapy or something we can actually replicate in other high-risk newborns.”