Editorial #1: The Intriguing Case of a Baby Cured of H.I.V.
Editorial #2: Saving Cameroon's Elephants
Editorial #3: How to Shop For College
Editorial #4: Publican el libro más pequeño del Mundo
The Editorial that had the most impact to me was one I found in "The New York Times" called "The Intriguing Case of a Baby Cured of H.I.V." The title says it all. It was very shocking for me do to the fact that a HIV has been a deadly virus that produces AIDS and is known to have no actual cure, apparently till now. When I first chose this editorial because I was interested in knowing if whether or not it was actually true that some type of remedy might have finally succeeded.
The editorial is about a baby infected with the H.I.V virus and a day after being born was submitted to an aggressive treatment of drugs that eventually led to a cure. It explains that many infected mothers are treated during there pregnancy for six weeks with intense antiretroviral drugs that can almost always prevent there unborn babies from getting transmitted with the virus. In this particular case the mother did not receive treatment while she was pregnant and her infected new born baby then commences to receive a treatment 30 hours after it's birth. The baby is given a three drug treatment- strength regimen during the period of 18 months and after the mother stops going to the hospital about 5 months later, now being 21/2 years old, is free of the active virus ever since. Doctors call this a "functional cure" because though tests still show traces of the virus it is not able to replicate and spread.
Quotes:
"If confirmed by further analysis, this would be the first time a person has been cured with simple drug treatments, making a lifetime of antiviral therapy unnecessary."
"If the stronger early treatment is confirmed to work, it could become the standard of care around the world."
"Even if the treatment works, the best defense against mother-to-child transmission is still prevention, which will always be preferable to treatment after an infection has set in."
I think the author was well informed and was pretty passionate while writing because as you read on you see that research has been done about the virus, mothers and the babies that are or have suffered this case in America. I especially do think i learned something today by reading this editorial on this H.I.V. cured baby.
Language: English
Editorial #2: Saving Cameroon's Elephants
Editorial #3: How to Shop For College
Editorial #4: Publican el libro más pequeño del Mundo
The Editorial that had the most impact to me was one I found in "The New York Times" called "The Intriguing Case of a Baby Cured of H.I.V." The title says it all. It was very shocking for me do to the fact that a HIV has been a deadly virus that produces AIDS and is known to have no actual cure, apparently till now. When I first chose this editorial because I was interested in knowing if whether or not it was actually true that some type of remedy might have finally succeeded.
The editorial is about a baby infected with the H.I.V virus and a day after being born was submitted to an aggressive treatment of drugs that eventually led to a cure. It explains that many infected mothers are treated during there pregnancy for six weeks with intense antiretroviral drugs that can almost always prevent there unborn babies from getting transmitted with the virus. In this particular case the mother did not receive treatment while she was pregnant and her infected new born baby then commences to receive a treatment 30 hours after it's birth. The baby is given a three drug treatment- strength regimen during the period of 18 months and after the mother stops going to the hospital about 5 months later, now being 21/2 years old, is free of the active virus ever since. Doctors call this a "functional cure" because though tests still show traces of the virus it is not able to replicate and spread.
Quotes:
"If confirmed by further analysis, this would be the first time a person has been cured with simple drug treatments, making a lifetime of antiviral therapy unnecessary."
"If the stronger early treatment is confirmed to work, it could become the standard of care around the world."
"Even if the treatment works, the best defense against mother-to-child transmission is still prevention, which will always be preferable to treatment after an infection has set in."
I think the author was well informed and was pretty passionate while writing because as you read on you see that research has been done about the virus, mothers and the babies that are or have suffered this case in America. I especially do think i learned something today by reading this editorial on this H.I.V. cured baby.
Language: English
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