Treatment Of Measles In AIDS Infected Babies

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Pregnancy and HIV

If you have HIV and you are pregnant, or if you want to become pregnant, talk with your health care provider about your options for taking care of yourself and reducing the risk of HIV infection or birth defects for your new child. The Bottom Line An HIV-infected woman who becomes pregnant needs to think about her own health and the health of her new child. Pregnancy may actually improve the health of the mother. The risk of transmitting HIV...

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Does my baby have a chance of being infected with HIV?

My husband and I are adopting a baby whose mother has HIV and is a carrier of Hepatitus C. The mother was put in AZT 3 hours before planned c-section. The baby is also on AZT for the first 6 weeks of her life. What are the chances that she would...

Response from Katherine Luzuriaga, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

In the absence of any treatment, about 25-30% of babies will acquire the infection from their mother. Treatment of the mother and baby with ZDV will definitely reduce the risk of HIV transmission but will not reduce the risk of HCV transmission.... Read more »

is it possible to have a baby without infecting my partner? (PrEP, 2010)

Hello. Dr. Bob. I am a female has been positive 10 years. and I found out with my pregnancy of my 9yrs old. (negative) I had a lot of problem to find the meds works for me as I had allergic reactions to azt and some of new meds but now I am with...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,A number of clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) are not yet completed. However there is some recent very promising data that was just published today. (You can't get any more recent than... Read more »

Friend with AIDS having 5th baby

I have a friend that is HIV poz (and husband). She is a wonderful person, and I am the only person (family and friend) that knows she is poz. However, she is having her 5th baby, and I am not happy about it because, if anything happens to them,...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

Whether she has children and how many is completely up to your friend. You may not approve, but the choice is hers (as it is for all of us). You are correct to say that the decison to have children should not be taken lightly, but it is still up to... Read more »

How can babies born form HIV positive mothers not being infected?

I would like to know how can the babies of HIV positive mothers not to get infected, as long as the baby "shares" mother's blood through placental circulation? Is HIV one of the "products" that do not cross the placental...

Response from John L. Sullivan, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

Only 1 in 4 babies born to untreated and non-breastfeeding HIV infected women will be infected with HIV; most HIV infected babies are infected when they are exposed to virus in the vagina during the birth process; some babies are infected while in... Read more »

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any babies infected by breast milk?

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Would someone know how many if any babies hiv infected by breast milk?

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Immediate Infection Treatment

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Had condom failure, is there a "morning after" treatment to prevent HIV? Read more »

Measles immunization

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Can an immunization for measles taken during the window period affect seroconversion if one was infected? I had an immunization done 4 weeks into my window and now im wondering if this will affect my window period.

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AIDS Treatment News on Denialists

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AIDS Treatment Improves Survival: Answering the "AIDS Denialists"

by Bruce Mirken

A sharp decline in AIDS deaths in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia began in 1996, coinciding with the widespread... Read more »

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