Largest Trial for AIDS Treatment Planned After French Teen’s Remission

A French teenager has been effectively cured of AIDS, showing no signs of active infection a dozen years after stopping treatment -- a development that is helping spur the largest trial ever aimed at curing patients of HIV.

The French girl, whose case was presented at an AIDS meeting in Vancouver on Monday, was infected at birth and treated until she was about six years old. Doctors then lost track of her for about a year, and her parents stopped the therapy for unknown reasons, said Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for her co-discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS.