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A study of more than 50 babies through age 2 in Africa, Asia, North America and South America has added substantially to evidence that giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) to newborns with HIV within the first days — rather than within weeks or months
Estimated probability of maintaining undetectable plasma RNA through 2 years was 33 and 57% in cohorts 1 and 2, respectively.
A study of more than 50 babies through 2 years old in Africa, Asia, North America and South America has added substantially to evidence that giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) to newborns with HIV within the first days — rather than within weeks or months — of life can safely suppress amounts of HIV in the blood to undetectable levels.
Infants with HIV could be spared from requiring lifetime antiretroviral (ART) if treated within hours of birth to disrupt formation of HIV viral reservoirs.
When an HIV-infected child known as the 'Mississippi baby' was given powerful antiretroviral drugs within hours of birth in 2013 and then appeared to be rid of HIV, people wondered if it might be replicated in other newb