One year later, Mississippi baby remains free of HIV

Dr. Hannah Gay, University of Mississippi Medical Center associate professor of pediatrics, reports the following:

“The Mississippi Baby continues to be followed carefully at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s pediatric clinic. She has not taken any HIV medications for almost two years, and her virus has not returned. We are thrilled that she continues to do so well.”

Dr. Gay and her colleagues, Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, and Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, an immunologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, first discussed the Mississippi Baby case publicly a year ago at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), held in Atlanta.

Currently at CROI 2014 in Boston, Dr. Persaud is scheduled on Wednesday, March 5, to present a scientific abstract containing an update on the Mississippi Baby, including data from tests conducted over the past year.

The child’s mother has elected to keep their identities and other personal information private.