World-changing news out of Mississippi where doctors have announced that a child born HIV positive was effectively cured of the disease 29 days after birth. 

Big news from Down Under where scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research announce a breakthrough that could become a cure for AIDS. Details follow. 

It's been a steadily good month for applause-worthy headlines out of the HIV/AIDS arena. Wednesday's session of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. kept that going as American doctors revealed new hope for a cure. 

In a discovery that could result in advances in HIV/Aids treatment, UCLA researchers (along with teams from four other institutions) have found a ‘broad spectrum’ antiviral that could be effective on a wide range of deadly diseases.

The latest possible weapon against a host of afflictions earns its firepower from attacking the lipid-membrane of a specific class of viruses.

According to Dr. Benhur Lee, primary researcher on the study, "the small molecule [of the broad spectrum anti-viral] binds to both cellular and viral membranes, but its preferential ability to inactivate viral membranes comes from its ability to exploit the biogenic reparative ability of metabolically active cells versus static viral membranes. That is, at antiviral...