A Man Living With Hiv Wants A Baby

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hiv- woman & hiv+ man want to have a baby

Hello. I am an hiv neg woman wishing to have a baby with my hiv+ husband. I read your answer to 'Hiv+man, HIV- woman, IVF' and I found out that my egg could be harvested, fertilized and returned in me. I understand it is not completely...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

I do not know where you live, but Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD has an In Vitro Fertilization program run by Dr. Jairo Garcia. I know that the program has not performed such a procedure for an HIV discordant couple, but he is willing to... Read more »

want a baby but my man is+ and i'm not

Hi, I am living in Ethiopia. My husband is HIV positive and I am not. But we want a baby. Can use... Read more »

Response from Katherine Luzuriaga, M.D. »

HIV+ wants baby

Is it possible for an HIV+ man to have a baby? Maybe, not by intercourse but artificial... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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My Husband's +, I'm -...we want to have a baby

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

My husband is HIV+. I am HIV-. We had "unsafe" sex for 2 years before finding out that he was +. He was infected during that whole time and never infected me. Since the tests, we have been using condoms consistantly. But now we are thinking about... Read more »

We are both hiv positive. We want to have a baby.

Posted by Anonymous

My husband and I have been HIV positive for approximately one (1) year. We live in a caribbean country where people are grossly ridiculed for having the virus. We are afraid to go to any local doctors to obtain information re: the possibilty of us... Read more »

My boyfriend still wants a baby

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Lately I have been going through hell! I just found out the other day a guy I met on the internet in January has AIDS and its full-blown too. Anyway I was stupid and slept with him on the first night I met him, I never saw him after that but kept in... Read more »

Baby-boomers living with HIV

Posted by Mondo, 6 Replies

Baby-boomers living with HIV

We lived through the fifties and sixties, with reminders from our parents to appreciate the things that they never had in the depression or during the war years. We survived the threat of nuclear war, free love, some... Read more »

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