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HIV is able to enter a dormancy phase in certain infected cells for years. While dormant, antiretrovirals can't clear it out, because they only work on active viruses that are either trying to enter specific host cells or are replicating inside by hijacking the host cell's machinery.
It is possible the child could have been infected through drinking breast milk, but hopefully the mother wouldn't be that ****ing stupid.
If you want some better news, recent trials of zinc finger nuclease , which has the ability to disable one of the chemokine receptors that HIV attaches to on the outside of a CD4 cell, has shown promise.
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