Posted on September 15, 2014
Source: The Lancet Infectious Disease
Seema K Shah, Deborah Persaud, David S Wendler, Holly A Taylor, Hannah Gay, Mariana Kruger, Christine Grady
The news that the Mississippi child previously in sustained viral remission now has detectable HIV1 is profoundly disappointing. We write to clarify that research on the use of very early antiretroviral therapy (ART) in infants born to mothers with HIV is still important. This development, however, gives reason to think carefully about how to do this research.
