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Can you have a baby with AIDS and how can an AIDS mom have a healthy baby?

Procreation is everyone's right, so can people with AIDS have small children?

I read a lot of people's answers on the internet saying that you can't have children, or that the children you have are unhealthy or something, but actually this view is incorrect or imperfect, right?

I specialize in AIDS prevention and treatment, and in the course of my work I have come across at least 10 cases of AIDS patients giving birth to children, I believe, but after we gave pregnant women blocking treatment, they gave birth to healthy children!

Let me start by sharing a story with you, a sad one, but with a better outcome: one morning at work, just as I opened the office door, a couple came in, the man was diagnosed with AIDS due to hospitalization for surgery, and after our staff created the appropriate file for the man, they proceeded to write a test for the woman. The results came back, and unfortunately, the woman was positive! The woman was four months pregnant at the time! We asked the woman what she wanted, and she was very determined to have a child, so we immediately prescribed the mother-to-child blocking treatment (PMTCT) medication for her, and thankfully, the child is now one and a half years old, and the nucleic acid and antibody tests are all negative.

So it is possible to have children with HIV infection, whether the man is infected or the woman is infected! What we recommend is to get treatment before having children, it is safe to have children when the CD4T cell value is within normal range and when the viral load is below the lower limit of detection for more than six months. Continue to take blocking therapy drugs during pregnancy, have the baby by cesarean section as much as possible, and the baby must be born artificially fed, not breastfed!

Here's my answer, hope it helps! Please leave a comment if you have any questions! Thanks!

I am a healthcare worker, and I am actually torn whenever I see this kind of topic. Whether or not to have children is a basic human right that none of us can take away, but there is always a voice inside me telling me that: It's better not to have children!

Reality is so cruel! If I have to have a baby, then I have no choice but to introduce it.Timing of childbirth.

First of all, pregnant women must have a comprehensive physical examination, including nutritional status, liver and kidney function, hemoglobin, examination of HIV-related complications, CD4 viral load and so on.

Second, the choice of the timing of fertility ① pregnant women CD4>500/mm ② viral load <1000 copies/ml ③ ovulation coitus.

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) should be applied in combination to pregnant women in the first, second and third trimesters of their reproductive choices. This type of combination is designed to treat the mother's own infections and is maintained throughout pregnancy, labor/delivery, breastfeeding, and thereafter for life. Treatment with (ART) improves the health of the mother, enabling her to better care for her child and family; and reduces the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by lowering the maternal viral load.

Although HIV is not hereditary, it is contagious. By giving birth to a pregnant woman with HIV, she has taken up all three of the transmission routes.This is why babies should be given HIV antiretroviral drugs within six hours of birth. Currently, mother-to-child transmission is prevented through the administration of HIV antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women and infants, and this mother-to-child interruption is also not 100% guaranteed.

Suffering from the side effects of HIV medication, drug resistance to long-term use of such medication, mutation of the HIV virus, failure of mother-to-child interruption, etc., and many other aspects and unforeseen contingencies need to be taken into account.This shows how difficult it is for an AIDS mom to have a healthy little baby!

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If it were me, I wouldn't want it! People talk about Em nowadays and I think my baby was looked at differently by others at birth because of his parents. The child will also have low self-esteem and suffer under the different eyes of others. I wouldn't let this pain happen to my dearest one.



What is the likelihood that a pregnant woman with HIV or syphilis will have a child infected by her mother?

This is a concern for many at-risk moms and involves the continuation and happiness of their families.

HIV-infected pregnant women who actively cooperate with their doctors can maximize the protection of their children from infection. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), if HIV-infected women are left untreated, they have a 15-45% chance of transmitting the virus to their children during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, which is about one in three.

However, with a combination of measures such as antiretroviral drugs, this risk can be reduced to less than 2%. In other words, fewer than 2 children born to 100 HIV-positive mothers are infected.

The same is true for syphilis, and it is significant to implement effective interventions.

A pregnant woman with syphilis who begins standardized treatment early in pregnancy has a 100 percent chance of her child not being infected; conversely, a pregnant woman with early syphilis who goes untreated has a 100 percent chance of her child being affected. These are the two hundred percent chances of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis.

If early syphilis is left untreated, 100 percent of the child is affected. If treatment is started early in pregnancy, the child is likely to be 100 per cent free of infection.

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It is possible for a mother with AIDS to give birth to a healthy baby. The mother-to-child interruption technology is very mature and the success rate of interruption can be over 95%. All over the country, there are programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and AIDS.

What should HIV-infected moms do?

1. HIV-infected pregnant women and their sexual partners need to be diagnosed early and intervene early (HIV testing and medication are free), seek medical help as early as possible, and do not hide their medical history.

2. Free antiviral medication for 6-12 weeks for babies delivered. (Free of charge)

3. Babies born are artificially fed (free formula milk is provided).

4. The child born completes 42 days, March, June, September, December and 18 months of free follow-up testing at the hospital where he/she was delivered to find out the status of the blockage. (Free of charge)

When you have AIDS, you will decide whether to have children on the advice of your doctor!

As a woman, having a child is the most basic desire; but with AIDS, it can be a luxury. The mother-to-child transmission route of AIDS can deter those who wish to have children for fear of infecting them!

Therefore, prepare yourself for the following when you wish to have a child:

Seek professional medical support

Before a person with AIDS wants to have a child, he or she must undergo standardized antiretroviral treatment to keep the virus in the body at a very low level, preferably non-infectious; secondly, good monitoring during pregnancy to avoid passing the virus to the child through the umbilical cord; furthermore, if the pregnancy goes well until delivery, protective medical treatment should be carried out during delivery to avoid the process of delivery and being infected by the blood and amniotic fluid in the delivery canal. Eliminate breastfeeding of the child and use artificial feeding, and always test the child's body for the virus.

Creating a safe environment

You also have to be psychologically prepared to learn how to deal with your child as he grows up day by day. At the same time, it is also necessary to channel the child's psychological situation, so that he can learn how to face the situation that his mother is an AIDS patient, how to understand the eyes of people around him, and learn to communicate. Only in this way can a child born to an AIDS patient have a healthy life!

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Can an HIV mom have a healthy baby?

The answer is yes, but scientific and effective interventions are needed; the

I remember a report, in 2002 or so, a hospital in Beijing admitted a case of AIDS maternal, because the pregnant woman's pregnancy examination is not perfect, until the delivery of the pregnant woman was found to have HIV, the hospital implemented a series of standard interventions, a year and a half later, the child's HIV test was negative, the intervention was successful!



Three routes of mother-to-child transmission

1. Pregnancy: During pregnancy, the mother can transmit HIV to the fetus through the placenta.

2. Childbirth: During childbirth, the newborn can come into contact with the mother's blood and secretions and become infected.

3. Breastfeeding: During breastfeeding, the mother's milk may contain the AIDS virus, and the child may be infected in the process.



Globally, it is estimated that 2.4 million HIV-infected women give birth to children each year, resulting in approximately 800,000 newborns being infected with HIV each year

How can an AIDS mom get a healthy child?

1. Mood of pregnant women: a happy mood is important for every pregnant woman, and it is important for pregnant women infected with HIV to maintain an optimistic mindset and a positive attitude.

2. Active treatment: Doctors have also used medication to reduce the viral load in the mother's body and control the infection.



3. Cesarean section: Cesarean section can be performed if possible, which can effectively reduce the possibility of infection.

4. Normal delivery: If you choose to have a normal delivery, then minimize the number of injurious operations during the delivery process.

5. Breastfeeding: Try to keep your child from breastfeeding after delivery.



For a healthy baby, the whole process takes everyone's efforts

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It's perfectly possible to have a child. This has been recognized by experts all over the world. CD4 is normal, the disease cannot be detected, you are a normal person, you can live, study, get married and have children normally and safely, there is no need to worry.

Nowadays, if a family is bi-positive or if the female partner is positive, the family can have a healthy baby through drug interruption. Families where the male partner is positive can have a healthy baby through drug interruption or through sperm washing. Sperm is free of HIV.

In China, Beijing You'an Ditan Shanghai Gongwei Zhengzhou six hospitals all provide counseling and services, You'an hospital has never failed to block. HIV-infected patients and families do not have psychological baggage, relax, the body well, the birth of a child in the current medication and technology is completely reliable.

The CDC has recognized U=U, disease load undetectable condomless sex does not not get you infected. Lastly, I wish you an early baby, a happy family and all the best!

It is possible to have a healthy baby, but be sure to follow your doctor's instructions.

During pregnancy and breastfeeding, all HIV-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women should be initiated on triple antiretroviral therapy.Antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women is aimed at maintaining maternal health and preventing mother-to-child transmission, and also helps to prevent sexual transmission. Lifelong treatment with antiretroviral drugs is recommended for infected persons.

NVP is contraindicated in women with CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts higher than 250 cells/mm3. Protease inhibitors have a high barrier to resistance, and antiviral therapy with kleenex may be considered preferred in pregnant women.

The source of HIV infection is AIDS patients and HIV carriers. HIV exists in the body fluids and organs and tissues of infected persons, and the blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk and wound exudate of infected persons contain a large amount of HIV, which is highly contagious. Tears, saliva, sweat, urine, feces, etc., when not mixed with blood and inflammatory exudates, contain very little of the virus and are not infectious.

In 2017, the General Office of the State Council on the issuance of China's containment and prevention of AIDS "13th Five-Year Plan of Action" notice, for the first time to promote the promotion of AIDS self-testing, exploring the sale of testing reagents through pharmacies and networks to carry out self-testing for AIDS, such as: saliva test, blood test, urine test, etc., the Aiwei brand of disposable saliva samples collector, etc., can maximize the discovery of infected people, patients, social forces to participate in the prevention and treatment of AIDS into the overall prevention and treatment work plan.

The primary modes of transmission of HIV are touch transmission, blood transmission, and mother-to-child transmission, and the following is a detailed explanation of the problem of the mode of transmission of HIV. Although HIV-infected people have the same appearance as normal people, their blood, semen, vaginal secretions, skin mucous membrane breaks or inflammation ulcers in the exudate contain a lot of HIV, with a strong infection; breast milk also contains the virus, there is infection. Saliva, tears, sweat and urine can also be found in the virus, but contains very little virus, infection is not big. Its center is through the transmission and blood transmission, general touch and can not be infected with AIDS, so AIDS patients should not be discriminated against in their daily lives, such as eating together, shaking hands, etc. will not be infected with AIDS.

Thanks, it is possible to have a healthy baby based on the subject's question alone.

But there are several issues involved that need to be addressed.

1. Whether the other half is also infected with AIDS

2. Whether the other half agrees to have a baby under such circumstances

3, to get pregnant need doctor intervention, 3 months of pregnancy to start mother-child blockade until after the baby is born to continue to use the drug (but not 100% blockade, there is still a chance of failure), cesarean section is better to avoid being infected

4. Never breastfeed

5. Be prepared for the failure of blocking or the unfortunate infection of the baby in your life.

6. Check for other genetic or infectious diseases

If all are acceptable, go to your local women's and children's hospital for advice (specialty hospitals are more effective at helping you than general hospitals)

Objectively, it is not recommended to give birth, after all, there are risks and it may cause harm to other families. From the patient's point of view, every woman has the right to become a mother and understands that the patient has a desire to be more eager than the average person, so the decision is up to you, think carefully!!!! Thank you!

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