HIV virus returns in child thought to have been ‘functionally cured’

Last year, a child born with HIV was revealed to be “functionally cured” thanks to the administration of a liquid antiretroviral almost immediately following her birth. Unfortunately, the National Institutes of Health have just announced that the so-called “Mississippi Baby” is now showing detectable levels of the HIV virus some two years after she was taken off of the drug regimen with no detectible levels of the virus.