Over the last decade, AIDS Holistics has placed much emphasis on the importance of pregnant mothers being HIV tested soon after falling pregnant. Please click:
If tested positive, they need to start ARV treatment to protect the unborn baby. This protection will involve the baby in the womb, in passage down the birth canal and during breast feeding.
It is essential that this is to take place to prevent HIV infection of the baby.
A decade ago, the advice was that mothers with a low viral count would probably not give the virus to the baby in the womb. It was hit and miss.
Now there is no doubt that the baby can be safe and that a mother can fall pregnant again with safety. But she has to take the ARV regularly as required.
There is an excellent report on PNG Attitude from Anna Awasa media officer for the LNG project. Please click:
Fighting the scourge of babies born with HIV/AIDS
Fighting the scourge of babies born with HIV/AIDS
She sets out the new scene for mothers and babies protected by ARV treatment.
Anna needs to focus on the need for the mother to take the ARV drugs as required. It is important to know the reasons why.
The ARV kills the virus in the mother's blood, blocking the attack on the gut lining.
The viral load of the mother drops to zero thus protecting the unborn baby in the womb and at birth.
The ARV kills the virus in the mother's blood, blocking the attack on the gut lining.
The viral load of the mother drops to zero thus protecting the unborn baby in the womb and at birth.
Anna also needs to talk about the dangers of a breast-feeding HIV mother smoking, particularly those not on ARV.
The tars and poisons of the cigarette smoke finds a way into the breast milk and infects the throat and chest of the baby providing an entry for the HIV in the breast milk.
My son was born HIV positive. He lived for 2 1/2 years. I am haunted still by hearing him with a nose and throat full of mucus every day and night. His mother died one year after he did.
Antibiotics are of little value against a virus.
The tars and poisons of the cigarette smoke finds a way into the breast milk and infects the throat and chest of the baby providing an entry for the HIV in the breast milk.
My son was born HIV positive. He lived for 2 1/2 years. I am haunted still by hearing him with a nose and throat full of mucus every day and night. His mother died one year after he did.
Antibiotics are of little value against a virus.
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