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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There’s no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus’ genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world’s second reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday’s announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
“You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we’ve seen,” Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associated Press.
A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn’t diagnosed until she was in labor.
“I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot,” Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.
That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby’s blood before it could form hideouts in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She led the investigation that deemed the child “functionally cured,” meaning in long-term remission even if all traces of the virus haven’t been completely eradicated.
Next, Persaud’s team is planning a study to try to prove that, with more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. “Maybe we’ll be able to block this reservoir seeding,” Persaud said.
No one should stop anti-AIDS drugs as a result of this case, Fauci cautioned.
But “it opens up a lot of doors” to research if other children can be helped, he said. “It makes perfect sense what happened.”
Better than treatment is to prevent babies from being born with HIV in the first place.
About 300,000 children were born with HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing the virus to their babies. In the U.S., such births are very rare because HIV testing and treatment long have been part of prenatal care.
“We can’t promise to cure babies who are infected. We can promise to prevent the vast majority of transmissions if the moms are tested during every pregnancy,” Gay stressed.
The only other person considered cured of the AIDS virus underwent a very different and risky kind of treatment – a bone marrow transplant from a special donor, one of the rare people who is naturally resistant to HIV. Timothy Ray Brown of San Francisco has not needed HIV medications in the five years since that transplant.
The Mississippi case shows “there may be different cures for different populations of HIV-infected people,” said Dr. Rowena Johnston of amFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. That group funded Persaud’s team to explore possible cases of pediatric cures.
It also suggests that scientists should look back at other children who’ve been treated since shortly after birth, including some reports of possible cures in the late 1990s that were dismissed at the time, said Dr. Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco, who also has seen the findings.
“This will likely inspire the field, make people more optimistic that this is possible,” he said.
In the Mississippi case, the mother had had no prenatal care when she came to a rural emergency room in advanced labor. A rapid test detected HIV. In such cases, doctors typically give the newborn low-dose medication in hopes of preventing HIV from taking root. But the small hospital didn’t have the proper liquid kind, and sent the infant to Gay’s medical center. She gave the baby higher treatment-level doses.
The child responded well through age 18 months, when the family temporarily quit returning and stopped treatment, researchers said. When they returned several months later, remarkably, Gay’s standard tests detected no virus in the child’s blood.
Ten months after treatment stopped, a battery of super-sensitive tests at half a dozen laboratories found no sign of the virus’ return. There were only some remnants of genetic material that don’t appear able to replicate, Persaud said.
In Mississippi, Gay gives the child a check-up every few months: “I just check for the virus and keep praying that it stays gone.”
The mother’s HIV is being controlled with medication and she is “quite excited for her child,” Gay added.
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Lakers Star Jordan Hill has joined Susan G. Komen in the Fight Against Breast Cancer and will be participating in their Annual Race For The Cure.
But when Jordan joined Susan G. Komen at the Stadium Club in Dodger’s Stadium… He explained why Breast Cancer is such an issue for him and so close to his heart…
He shared with Lisa Sigell of KCAL 9 News the Heartbreaking Story of growing up without knowing his Mother, because he Lost her to Breast Cancer when he was only 3 years old.
Jordan Hill Shares The Source Of His Strength & Drive
The Pain in his voice just shows how deeply saddened he is knowing he grew up without his Mother, wishing he had known her. And so he chooses to make sure he can do what he can to make sure nobody else has to go through what he had to go through.. Life without his mother.
So Props from Proph to Jordan Hill. Your Strength, Your Courage… And Even Your Pain.. Will be Used to Help Bless The World And Our World’s Women.
Los Angeles All Day
Jordan Talks About His Life's Highs And Lows
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Who would’ve thunkit ???
Bobby Brown and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump are BFF’s ???
Cause they were spotted having a huge gathering at Madeo’s Last night which included my peeps, Bobby’s Wife Alicia Etheridge and my Homegirl Djata Grant… just before Bobby is going to be away for a short time stemming from his recent DUI Arrest.
And Lisa seems to be seeping her way into everywhere she can with Pop Culture, from RHOBH to being a part of the new cast of DWTS.. and now Bobby Brown’s Bestie ???
You gotta admit tho… when you’re faced with such an unfortunate circumstance as doing a Bid… It’s good to know you’ve got supportive peeps who are willing to Celebrate your time away.. just before going away.
Props from Proph
Thanks to My Mans Henry Trappler and Hollywood Uncensored for the Video
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Fear of Death From Education, I Thought The Days Would Never Be Seen. Darkened Are The Days Of The American Dream
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December 14th, 2012… A Date Which Will Live In Infamy
Tragedy struck on two sides of our Globe on Friday December 14th 2012… The most tragic of which is the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the quiet community of Newtown, Connecticut… When the identified shooter,20-year old Adam Lanza opened fire on the Kindergarten and Elementary School students at the the school where his mother was a Teacher’s Aid. Adam’s mother, Nancy was found dead in their family home with a single gunshot wound to the face, shortly after he took his own life after ending the lives of nearly 30 others, including 20 children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. Reports state that Adam used a handgun and an assault rifle legally purchased and registered under his mother’s name.
- Another Product of Our Lost and Broken Society
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Alleged Sandy Hook Elementary shooter Adam Lanza as seen in this 2005 photo. ABC News Exclusive
This tragic event has resonated all too loud with this Nation that has dealt with such violent attacks on School Campuses as Columbine and Virginia Tech.
But this event was all too much even more devastating than any shooting we can remember, because the majority of the victims who lost their lives were innocent children. The minds and hearts of these children at these ages are the only purity our world has, considering everything else beyond that realm of life has been riddled with corruption, violence and immorality in the society we are living in today.
There have been over 40 School Shootings since Columbine on April 20th, 1999. And such a Nationally Devastating event as this, to come only a few months after the shootings allegedly by the hand of James Holmes before Dark Knight Rises at a Movie Theater in Aurora, Colorado… Should cause us all to really think about what is going on with our Nation.
But add to that an event that also occurred on the same day… Half a World Away… Should be even more troubling.
36 year old Min Yingjun Stabbed 22 Children on their way to Chenpeng Village Primary (Elementary) School in Central China, also on Friday Morning as the kids were on their way to school around 8am. China has had a string of incidents surrounding their Schools over the last few years, which has left a total of around 30 dead and 50 wounded. The children of this school ranged in age from 6-11, right around the EXACT SAME AGE GROUP as the children at Sandy Hook in Connecticut. A graphic image has even found its way on the Internet of Min Yingjun holding a Huge Knife to a crying young boy in his possession.
Some believe Mental Illnesses may be the root cause of this problem, with reports saying that Adam Lanza was Autistic, and slowly grew to resent his family and how they treated him. Some are explaining the string of attacks on Chinese Schools as a result of people not properly coping with the Rapid Growth, Modernization and Industrialization of Chinese Society.
At any rate, the Dark Forces have spoken. December 14th,, sandwiched one week after Pearl Harbor and one week before the Mayan Doomsday of December 21st… There is clearly a message to be found from both of these incidents. And it should let us know how much we have fallen apart in a Society. No society is immune. We are all seeing more than our fair shares of Tragedy. Whether the world Ends on December 21st, which I believe it won’t, we still have this horrible error in our society to face and reflect upon. Whether these are our final days or not.
There will now be an intense pressure for Gun Control Laws. And while I myself believe Guns… as I also believe all weapons intended to give any one human being the power to end the life of any other human being… whether on a small or large scale… should not be in existence in our Society… A Society that breeds destruction, will never stop until it has destroyed itself Completely. The fact that our Human society has placed so much time, energy, resources and finances, to perfect killing machines that destroy and tear through human organs and flesh is one of the greatest parts of our Tragic Present and Bleak End.
But the problem with Gun Control, is the Double Edged Sword. Because a relinquishment of weapons by the Citizens of a Nation, Usually is the Precursor to the Greatest of Oppressions and Crimes Against Humanity by a Governing State over a People ever Recorded. And when we know our entire World System and Culture is run by the hands of a Ruling Class Elite, we can be rest assured that Tyranny is one of their future plans and options.
Being that Both of these Attacks focused on our World’s Children, in a World where all are a part of this World Stage… We can only be certain that this is analogous of the Direct Attack at the Core of our Families and our Society’s future as a whole. Our Immoral and Dark Society has bred a World that is no longer safe for our Children, our Ourselves.
For 20 Children who would have never known, foreseen or imagined an end for themselves in this manner.. and for their Families that will Forever Mourn the Loss of a Child who was robbed of their Life’s Potential… We can only hope that this Loss will help do whatever it is that it takes to Turn This World Around.
Because if we haven’t seen it by now… We are Already Too Late.
“A World That Breeds Destruction Will Never Stop
Until It Has Destroyed Itself Completely” – Prophecy
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Molly Sims had her own Vanity Fair / Elle Magazine / Demi Moore / Alessandra Ambrosio experience tonight, only she did it beautifully while fully clothed.
A very pregnant and pretty much at the end of her third trimester Molly Sims stopped by Rummage in West Hollywood to celebrate the launch of Kishani Perera’s new interior book, Vintage Remix: The Interiors Of Kishani Perera. I wonder if her baby’s doing some interior decorating in the womb right about now. Probably not since it’s about to move out… any frickin moment now !!
She did express her thoughts of where she’s at now, as most women would just before poppin out their first bundle of joy. She’s a little freaked, she said, about breastfeeding and doing all of that stuff, and she also mentioned how she loves her strange food cravings.
Congrats to you Molly, you will soon be 2 people.
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A Healthy And Happy Damn Fine Family
Brazilian Born Victoria’s Secret Model Alessandra Ambrosio is unafraid to prove she eats enough to feed for Two.
Her fiancé, Jamie Mazur snapped a pic of his lady on the beach in a bikini, nearly about to become two people right before your very eyes… and giving us a photo quite reminiscent of Demi Moore’s 1991 Vanity Fair Cover under the eye of Annie Leibovitz.
Other stars that have followed suit in such fashion include Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Jessica Simpson’s recent Elle Magazine cover documenting her nude look in the final stages of pregnancy.
Women AND Society has come a long way. From Demi’s cover that caused an uproar, all the way to Alessandra and Jamie posting this pic to Facebook from their cell phone.
Women, celebrate your womanhood and one of those aspects of your lives that make you so special.
You bring Life into this World.
Congratulations to Alessandra and Jamie Mazur. Two great people who deserve all the blessings coming their way, both individually and as a family.
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Photo: Facebook.com/alessandra
Mischa and Nuala Barton
Mischa Barton was steady mobbin with the moms at Mr. C’s on Wednesday Night for Zapato Domingo’s Oscar Art Show.
Nuala Barton, who herself is a photographer, showed off her daughter with pride. Then said daughter posed in front of one of the many ridiculous Fisker Karma Electric Luxury Sport Vehicles.
Domingo Zapato invited a few works of art... including the Fisker Karma and Mischa bARTon
Mischa, since your mama gave you life, and she showed you off like her art… you may as well buy her a Fisker Karma. She deserves it.
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- Mischa and Nuala Barton
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- Domingo Zapato invited a few works of art… including the Fisker Karma and Mischa bARTon
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Without you, our lives would never be nearly as sweet.
As a dedication to all you wonderful and amazing mothers out there that we could never make it in life without…
I dedicate the two greatest Mom songs ever made to you… One Hip-Hop and one R&B.
Tupac’s “Dear Mama” and Boyz II Men’s “A Song For Mama”
Just try not to cry, unless it’s out of absolute joy
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Either Jennifer Lopez is too hip... Or the other chick is not hip at all
Jennifer Lopez had her record release party for the “Love” album at Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood last night. And Jennifer these days is looking extremely hip…. like shootin twins out your pelvis like projectiles kinda hip.
It’s either that, or they made a mistake of standing her next to a formless mannequin who doesn’t have nearly the J. Lo booty that’s so phat you can see it from the front. Rare things.
Ya know those optical illusions in school back in the day? Like, which line is longer?
a. >—-<
or
b. <—->
Now let’s apply that to J. Lo booty:
Which line is wider? Or are they the same ??
Yeah… That’s what I thought.
Photos: WireImage/John Shearer
I wish January could spawn off in January
According to January Jones’s pregnancy announcement she made earlier this week, her baby is due this Fall, so more than likely, no January delivery date.
The “Mad Men” star has kept the father under wraps for now, but many wonder if the child is with on-again off-again boyfriend Jason Sudeikis from Saturday Night Live. The couple apparently ended their relationship in, ironically… January.
Though she’s single now, she is facing motherhood head on with an optimistic outlook and says she can’t wait to be a single mother.
Look for January in the newest addition to the X-Men family, “X-Men: First Class”
Photo Credit: WireImage / J Strauss
Come on !! It's just a joke 
gotta grab yer attention somehow. Congratulations you two Or shall I say... You FOUR
I keed I keeeeeed !! They “CAN-CARE” !!
Cause today Nick CAN-NON and Mariah CARE-y welcomed their two twins, both a girl and a boy, this morning and both weighing in at just over 5 pounds and 18 & 19 inches. The two yet to be named twins are the first children for both who were married exactly 3 years ago to the day, on April 30th, 2008.
Ya gotta give it to the couple who share a 12 year age difference. When they first started, people had their doubts, as they do with any and every celebrity couple.
But the two have seemed the happiest celebrity couple out there right now, and now they’ve begun their own family in a real way. They not only get to experience the joys of parenthood together, as these twins are the first children for both, but they get to experience raising both a boy and a girl. Their life feels pretty complete right now.
So congrats to the happy couple. Even celebrity lives are not without their difficulties and problems. But these two have really made it seem as if nothing gets in the way of their lives together as a family.
Jessica Alba and Nicole Richie will soon both be mothers of two
I really just made her sound old didn’t I?
Well, too bad. Happy Birthday Jessica Alba, today you turn 30 !! Don’t be mad about it, it could be worse. Your birthday could’ve been 3 days ago and you would’ve shared it with Michael Lohan
There might actually be a good chance Jessica decides to take her man Cash Warren out to dinner at one of their favorite spots… BOA
One thing we do know about Jessica’s 30th year, she will be giving birth to her 2nd child.
Double congratulations.
