{"id":3272,"date":"2005-05-11T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/11\/hiv-babies-stay-healthy-with-early-treatment\/"},"modified":"2005-05-11T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T21:22:14","slug":"hiv-babies-stay-healthy-with-early-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/hiv-babies-stay-healthy-with-early-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV babies stay healthy with early treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHIV dissidents<\/a> foam at the mouth about the treatment of newborns with anti-retroviral drugs, but this new study<\/a> shows that it works:<\/p>\n

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The Stanford team found that HIV-infected infants treated with anti-retroviral drugs within two months of birth were less likely to develop AIDS as toddlers than were infants whose treatment was only delayed slightly, to the age of 3 to 4 months.<\/p>\n

Of 10 children who started therapy before they were 2 months old, three (30 percent) got sick before they were 3 years old. In contrast, of 16 children who started therapy later, 11 (68 percent) got sick before the age of 3.<\/p>\n

But both groups benefited from the treatment, whether given soon after birth or a little later. Without treatment, as many as 20 to 30 percent of HIV-infected infants will develop AIDS by the age of only 4 months — and almost all will get sick by age 6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Posting this would cause Google Ads to flood us with AIDS-testing ads, one of the reasons I’ve ditched Google.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HIV dissidents foam at the mouth about the treatment of newborns with anti-retroviral drugs, but this new study shows that it works: The Stanford team found that HIV-infected infants treated with anti-retroviral drugs within two months of birth were less likely to develop AIDS as toddlers than were infants whose treatment was only delayed slightly, … Continue reading “HIV babies stay healthy with early treatment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-QM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}