World’s first case of long-term remission (12 years) in an HIV-infected child to be presented.

A young woman now aged 18 and a half, who at birth was HIV-infected via mother-to-child transmission (during pregnancy or at delivery), is in virological remission, despite not having taken any antiretroviral therapy for the last 12 years. Monitored in the French ANRS pediatric cohort, this young woman seems to have benefited from the treatment that was initiated shortly after her birth and stopped approximately … Continue reading World’s first case of long-term remission (12 years) in an HIV-infected child to be presented.