US guidelines recommend that pregnant women infected with HIV receive drugs during pregnancy, that their baby should be delivered via cesarean section, and be formula-fed. The mother in this case did not receive any prenatal care or antiretroviral therapy. |
Scientific American, a leading authority on science, digs deeper into recent news of an infant born to an HIV-infected mother in Mississippi who was pronounced cured after a rapidly administered course of drugs.
The publication notes that several factors make the child’s case unique, and clinicians warn that we have not discovered a general cure for HIV yet.
However, the medical first may hint at ways to fight the AIDS-causing virus.
Click here to read the story in Scientific American.
[Source: Scientific American]