A Huge Step For Mankind!

           One of the U.N. Millennium Development goals was to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and today we are amazingly one step closer. This disease causes 4000 deaths daily and affects 34.2 million people in the world today, and 100 new American babies annually. Fortunately that number has been reduced by one thanks to Dr. Hannah Gay, University of Mississippi. Though not a perfect cure yet, it's the closest we've come. An anonymous baby was treated at birth and has officially been free of HIV for 2 1/2 years. Regularly babies born with the virus can be treated on an intense regime of medicine very day for the rest of their lives, even with this treatment 20% do not make it to age 4. A representative from John  Hopkins, Maryland, noted that previously the focus was prevention and now attention can be shifted to a cure, which is a fantastic step.

Above: Dr. Hannah Gay; some have comically noted on this case that if HIV really is "Gods punishment on the gays" then He must be pretty annoyed to be undermined...by a woman...named Dr. Gay.
Photo Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/doctors-cure-newborn-baby-of-aids-virus/story-e6frg8y6-1226589786009