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" Anyone who had Mississippi in the In What State Will A Cure For AIDS Be Found? Pool may stand to win an awful lot of money. The infant underwent remission of HIV infection after receiving antiretroviral therapy, or ART, within 30 hours of birth. Medications used were Zidovudine, Lamivudine and Nevirapine. A series of tests showed progressively diminishing viral presence in the infant&amp;#039;s blood until it reached undetectable levels 29 days after birth. Gay switched Nevirapine with Kaletra for long-term therapy. The infant remained on antiviral drugs until 18 months of age, then became hard to follow up with for a while and stopped treatment. Ten months after discontinuation of treatment, the child underwent repeated standard blood tests, none of which detected HIV presence in the blood. &amp;quot;At that point the mom admitted that she had not been giving the medicine for several months, and I expected the baby&amp;#039;s viral load to have gone back up,&amp;quot; Gay said. &amp;quot;But, when we drew the test we got back still an undetectable viral load. That was a surprise to me.&amp;quot; As is obvious, a program like the one in which this infant was treated requires a great deal of time and effort and, yes, money -- and even then, the infant in question fell off the radar for a while. This money, for Mississipi and everywhere else, of course, is presently being held hostage in Sequesterland. Laboratories at major universities and medical centers are already laying off scientists, even before the latest round of cuts is scheduled to take effect. And local public health officials, hit by years of cutbacks, are scaling back immunization campaigns and other efforts to track and control infectious diseases. &amp;quot;They are doing cuts on top of cuts on top of cuts,&amp;quot; said Eric Hoffman, director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research at Children&amp;#039;s National Medical Center in Washington. Hoffman&amp;#039;s labs have had to delay several major projects, including new research into muscular dystrophy in children. But we&amp;#039;re going to keep the carried-interest deduction, so it&amp;#039;s all good. Our great-grandchildren are going to disown us entirely and claim we are an extinct species, like the Neanderthal. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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