An 18-year-old French teenager who was born with HIV has the ability to control the levels of infections in her body without being on antiretroviral treatment.

According to the teenager's doctors, it's an unprecedented remission, the infection is nearly undetectable despite stopping treatment 12 years ago, according to CBS News.

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The teenager looks like to have some form of natural resistance to HIV that was not discovered yet.

"This is the first [time] long-term remission has been shown in children, or adolescents," said Asier Saez Cirion from the Institut Pasteur in France, who reported the findings at the 8th IAS conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention, in Vancouver this week.

Furthermore, a similar situation was reported a few years ago, a Mississippi baby girl who is also HIV positive for 27 months without any treatment, but the virus rebounded, stopping the hopes that early treatment might have helped her, CNN reported.

"This is a very rare case," according to Dr. Deborah Persaud, a Virologist at John Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore.

Dr. Persaud is happy and excited of the achieved remission for this French teenager but gave warning that it can easily be replicated.

"Many kids have gone off treatment -- and treated that early -- and we haven't seen this outcome," Dr. Persaud said. "Parents should not take their child of their antiretroviral regimen to see if they're like this child."

Meanwhile, the results of the study have AIDS experts become more optimistic that it is possible to put an end into the pandemic of HIV, which killed almost 40 million people and infected almost 37 million more, as per NBC News.

"The road for us going forward is very clear," said Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. "We have now the unique opportunity of ending the pandemic."

While Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the study shed some light that when an HIV-infected person takes antiretroviral therapy that keeps the virus suppressed, the treatment is highly effective at preventing sexual transmission of HIV to an uninfected heterosexual partner.

"For heterosexuals who can achieve and maintain viral suppression, the risk to their partners is exceedingly low," Dr. Fauci said.

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