Four HIV-positive babies were able to achieve remission for more than a year after doctors treated them with aggressive medication, giving hope to treatment and cure research.From 2015 to 2017, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health who had treated dozens of HIV-positive babies with one of two different treatment regimens since birth. About five years later, they chose six children to pause medication to test how long remission would last. In four of those six children, the levels of in their blood were completely undetectable for 12 to 18 months before reaching levels that became detectable again.
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