Doctors announced that a newborn baby had been cured of
H.I.V for the first time. This new development could change how infected babies
are treated and significantly reduce the number of children living with the
virus that causes A.I.D.S. The baby was treated aggressively with
antiretroviral drugs starting around thirty hours after birth, something that
is not usually done. One reason people cannot be cured now is because the virus
hides in a dormant state, out of reach of existing drugs. When drug therapy is
stopped, the virus can emerge from hiding. “ That goes along with the concept
that, if you treat before the virus has had an opportunity to establish a large
reservoir and before it can destroy the
immune system, there’s a chance you can withdraw therapy and have no virus”,
said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. In the United States transmission from mother to
child is rare, but women in many developing countries are less likely to be
treated during pregnancy. Studies are being planned to see if early testing and
aggressive treatment can work for other babies.
The article was flawed in that it provided too much
information opposing the initial point that it was trying to convey. With the
title of the article being “ In medical first, a baby with H.I.V is deemed cured,
the reader may expect only information supporting the argument. The article
states “ some outside experts need convincing that the baby had truly been
infected” . The author have may also published the article too soon giving the
public false hope. The findings have not been backed up by outside doctors nor
have the results been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. The article
has a whole was good, we may in fact have found a cure for newborns with H.I.V.
A cure for newborns would be greatly beneficial since 330,000 were newly infected in 2011 and more
than three million children globally are living with H.I.V.
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