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What have we learned about HIV from the “Mississippi baby?”

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What have we learned about HIV from the “Mississippi baby?”

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A baby treated for HIV 30 hours after birth was thought to have been cured but the disease came back years later. Anthony Fauci, MD, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses what that means.

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