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WASHINGTON, DC (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Thirty-nine million people worldwide are living with HIV, the virus that leads to aids.

In the 80’s, contracting HIV was considered a death sentence.

In the 90’s HIV was the number one cause of death among Americans ages 25 to 44. Fast forward to 2024 — there are anti-viral drugs that can keep people infected with the virus alive into their 70’s and 80’s.

There are even drugs that can lower a person’s risk of catching HIV to almost zero. And now, a new breakthrough — this one impacting the youngest patients.

In 2013 a little girl known as the Mississippi baby made headlines becoming the first case of HIV remission in a toddler — but two years later the virus returned.

It’s taken more than a decade for researchers to replicate that functional cure.

Johns Hopkins pediatrician Deborah Persaud, MD is part of the …