Aids hope ahead of conference
June 30, 2013, Sunday
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AIDS scientists expressed optimism over their search for a cure for the disease yesterday, ahead of a major conference in Kuala Lumpur, with more funding and research breakthroughs boosting their hopes.
Thousands of delegates will attend the four-day International Aids Society (IAS) Conference which starts today in Malaysia's capital, the first time the bi-annual event will be held in Asia.
Deborah Persaud of the US Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland, said the case of the "Mississippi baby" that her team worked on presented a "ray of hope."
The baby, born in the US state of Mississippi, was apparently cleared of the virus after being given aggressive anti-retroviral treatment within 30 hours of her birth. She is now almost three years old.
"There needs to be a lot of work done ... We have to replicate the case; we need to understand the case," said Persaud.
Children younger than 15 form 10 percent of the estimated 34 million people infected with HIV worldwide. The pandemic has claimed 30 million lives. About 1.8 million people die each year from aids.
(AFP)
Thousands of delegates will attend the four-day International Aids Society (IAS) Conference which starts today in Malaysia's capital, the first time the bi-annual event will be held in Asia.
Deborah Persaud of the US Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland, said the case of the "Mississippi baby" that her team worked on presented a "ray of hope."
The baby, born in the US state of Mississippi, was apparently cleared of the virus after being given aggressive anti-retroviral treatment within 30 hours of her birth. She is now almost three years old.
"There needs to be a lot of work done ... We have to replicate the case; we need to understand the case," said Persaud.
Children younger than 15 form 10 percent of the estimated 34 million people infected with HIV worldwide. The pandemic has claimed 30 million lives. About 1.8 million people die each year from aids.
(AFP)
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