A French teenager’s HIV infection is still in remission more than a decade after her medications were discontinued, the longest hiatus on record for a young person and the best indication yet that long-term interruption of the infection is possible in children, a researcher revealed Monday.
The virus has been undetectable in the teenager’s blood since she was 21 months old, according to the information presented Monday at the 2015 International AIDS Society conference in Vancouver, B.C. She is now older than 18 and has not received anti-HIV medication since she was almost 6. A blood test shortly before her seventh birthday showed no presence of the virus.
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