For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers?
Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pe… [+3531 chars]
The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children - WIRED
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.
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