WAS THE YOUNG GIRL MOLESTED?

Here is a puzzle to consider. It is a story based on fact. A young 5 year old girl was diagnosed HIV positive.  She had been infected for 3 years. Mother, father and baby daughter were also diagnosed HIV positive.

The child was not born HIV positive. The mother became infected during the pregnancy with her baby. How did the young girl become infected?

It is obvious. She had been molested by her father or another infected person. That may be true. But there is another obvious reason.

The mother was breast feeding her baby but her first child was only 3 years old. She wanted to be breast fed too. But the first child had a cold and was cutting her first teeth.

She was given HIV infected milk by the mother and the virus was transmitted through the inflamed gums and infections in her throat.

The mother should have been on antiretroviral drugs for the second child from the point of diagnosis during early pregnancy. Then it is possible that neither child would have been infected.

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