U.S. doctors have announced the first-ever known instance of curing a baby born with HIV. Virologists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore attributed the breakthrough to a three-drug cocktail administered immediately after the baby was born. Study author Dr. Deborah Persaud said the case could provide a model for treating babies born with HIV worldwide.

Dr. Deborah Persaud: “The child remains off of antiretroviral therapy and is doing well. So we believe that perhaps the initiation of very early antiretroviral therapy prevented the formation of the viral reservoirs in central memory CD4T cells that are the barriers to a cure, and really sets the stage for a pediatric cure agenda going forward.”