What Happens To A Baby Born To A Mother With Hpv

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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 »

Babies born to hiv infected mothers

How long will it take before a babies is free of her mother's antibodies and be tested... Read more »

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baby born to HIV + Mother

I am a foster care provider and have been approached to take a 10 month old baby that has been born... Read more »

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Articles

This Mother's Day, Ensure Babies Everywhere Are Born Free of HIV

Ahead of Mother's Day on May 13, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe writes in this post in the Huffington Post 's "Global Motherhood " blog, "Together we can go from 390,000 children becoming infected with HIV each year to zero," and he... Read more »

HIV-Negative Babies Born to HIV-Positive Mothers Have Weakened Ability to Fight Some Infections

"Babies who are exposed to HIV at birth but don't become infected with the virus have lower levels of antibodies to diseases such as whooping cough, tetanus and pneumococcus," according to a study published in the Feb. 9 issue of the Journal of... Read more »

Two-Year Morbidity-Mortality and Alternatives to Prolonged Breast-Feeding Among Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers in Cote d'Ivoire

Renaud Becquet of the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite in France and colleagues conducted the study from 2001 through 2005 among 557 infants born to HIV-positive women in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. After their infants... Read more »

New State Regulation Requires All Infants Born in New York Be Tested for HIV Within 12 Hours of Birth

A new state regulation will require all infants born in New York whose mothers have not been tested for HIV during their pregnancy be tested for the virus within 12 hours of birth, the New York Post reports. Under the rule, which takes effect... Read more »

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Why is this happening?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

ON THE RUN
HIV-positive mothers resist pressure to put their children on drug
By Marnie Ko

The Report Newsmagazine 11-08-1999

The women have little in common, except that they are all mothers and are all HIV-positive. One is frantic; her children... Read more »

surrogate mothers

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

As a gay man who has always wanted children I have been wondering about looking into surrogate mothers, but she would have to be hiv + since I am. I am healthy and doing well. Educated and stable. But, when I've inquired about this at "gay and... Read more »

the worst thing that can happen

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

my blood bleed and I wiped it to a tissue.. 3 hours later my baby sister played with it.. then sucked her fingers.. she's 10 months old.

and my status is unknown..

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Baby Brokeback

Posted by Bear60, 4 Replies

Sorry folks....this was irresistable so here goes:

Two gay men decide to have a baby. They mix their sperm together,
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>> > then have a surrogate mother artificially inseminated.
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