Is Aids Becoming Curable?
By adforme
@adforme (2114)
March 4, 2013 8:00pm CST
The story of a child with aids being cured by aggressive treatment is incredible. I have been hearing for years about research, vulnerable communities, and testing options for this disease. It is good to know progress is being made. Aids has not really been a disease people have been talking about very much lately. But, hopefully this news of a cured child will start conversations. If this deadly disease can be cured, the communities it affects most can have the possibility of living through it. Hiv will no longer mean the beginning of the end. People need to protect themselves and get tested regardless.
3 responses
@vikram3101989 (684)
• India
5 Mar 13
A complete cure for HIV aids is still far off in the future. As of now only precautionary methods need to be taken to avoid getting infected with the HIV virus.
@BigMoney25 (1286)
• Philippines
5 Mar 13
With the advancement of technology and medical research, there's no doubt that aids will become curable soon. This is good news since this virus kills plenty each year. Only downside is that people will not be afraid to do it with anyone especially rich people since they have the money to cure themselves. Well that's one downside I could think of.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
5 Mar 13
I don't think that a cure for AIDS is very close but I am certain that a cure will eventually be found.
The case of the child who seems to have been cured after being infected at birth resulted from some very special circumstances. Because the mother was diagnosed with AIDS at a late stage, the usual pre-natal care could not be applied and, fortunately, the baby had not contracted the disease in the womb but only actually at birth. It is likely that the course of three treatments given very soon after infection was able to reduce the virulence of the virus before it could establish itself in the white blood cells. There is, as yet, no certain cure for AIDS once it is established and has affected the white blood cells.
In the UK and the US, proper pre-natal care ensures that 98% or 99% of babies born to AIDS infected mothers are free from the disease. In other countries, where such care is not available and where most babies are born at home, the proportion is much lower.
