HIV cure in children?

Recent data of functional cure in adults when HAART is initiated in the early stages of infection raises new hope that current ART may be sufficiently powerful to rapidly clear viremia and prevent infection of a complete array of resting cells that perpetuate infection. I think it is premature to conclude we understand the time sequence of exposure to infection well enough to predict in whom we might achieve a cure, but it is not premature to imagine that we are moving the football down the field.

Dr. Pelton is chief of pediatric infectious disease and coordinator of the maternal-child HIV program at Boston Medical Center. He said he had no relevant financial disclosures.