A generation born with HIV/AIDS defies the odds
Posted in HIV infection, hiv transmission on June 25th, 2009 by hiv_test – 3 CommentsBabies who were born with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s have defied initial expectations. No one expected them to live long.
Since the mid-1990s in developed countries, antiretroviral drugs have largely prevented mothers from transmitting HIV/AIDS to their babies.
Nearly 30 young adults and teenagers who were born with HIV/AIDS meet every week at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. “We don’t want to talk about HIV every day,” said Eric Koumbou, 19. “If you talk about HIV and you don’t have it and I do, sometimes it makes me angry or makes me sad.”
For the complete article, please see http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/22/hiv.children.generation/index.html?eref=ib_topstories.
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