Girl living with HIV for 12 years without medication

The medical community published the case that the first patient with HIV could resist the development of the virus without taking the drug for 12 years.

12 years living with HIV without taking drugs

Researchers at the Vancouver International Association Conference in Vancouver said the case of an 18-year-old girl (whose identity was not published), the French lived with the HIV virus for 12 years without using any method What treatment, according to the Telegraph.

The image of HIV virus has many rounds on the cell surface provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.(Photo: AP.)

In the United States, HIV-infected mothers are given free HIV medicines during pregnancy to limit the likelihood of mother-to-child transmission of the virus. However, the mother of this French girl did not have any medical intervention during her pregnancy. Babies get the virus before or during birth.

At that time, they looked after the newborn baby with HIV - zidovudine or AZT for 6 weeks. Because tests show that HIV levels in the baby's blood are still high, doctors have used four more powerful HIV drugs. The treatment process lasts until she is 6 years old. A year later, when the girl and her mother returned to the hospital, the doctors saw that her blood was free of HIV . So they decided to stop treatment with drugs.

' The infections that the girl had had had signs of remission. Her body does not have a genetic variant or other biomarker, which can provide natural antibodies against HIV. Before receiving high-dose anti-HIV treatment, her body could not stop the HIV virus. This result shows that early treatment can prevent the development of HIV, ' said Sharon Lewin , a scientist with AIDS research at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

A few years ago, a Mississippi case was reported to have inhibited the development of HIV for 27 months without medication. However, the HIV virus in the patient's body became resistant and developed. We can hope that science will soon find ways to treat HIV.

Some teens can produce natural anti-HIV substances . Scientists have not discovered this mechanism. For these cases, if the doctor applies aggressive treatments that can limit the development of the virus, the patient's body may be antiviral without lifelong support.