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You can't transmit AIDS - you only transmit HIV (the virus which can cause AIDS). Given good medical care, the risk of mother-to-child transmission can be reduced to almost zero. Without that medical care, the chances of transmission are around 30%.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 13y agoHIV can be passed from a pregnant woman to her baby during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Mothers can also transmit HIV to their babies through breast-feeding. Not every HIV-infected pregnant woman will pass HIV on to her baby; without any clinical interventions, about 3 out of every 10 HIV-infected pregnant women would transmit HIV to their children.
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∙ 10y agoIt means the baby is born HIV positive because his mother has it.
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∙ 10y agoThe mother isn't taking treatment for her HIV.
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∙ 14y agoThe most likely way you would transfer aids to a child from the mother is in utero (When the child is still inside the womb.
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∙ 13y agoHIV can be transmitted through the placenta, during labor and delivery, and through breast milk.
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∙ 7y agoYes it can.
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HIV cannot be transmitted from a mother to her unborn child?
Transmission of HIV from mother-to-child can occur during pregnancy or after birth during breastfeeding. With routine HIV testing of pregnant mothers the occurance of this is low.
What can cause you to get HIV or Aids?
HIV can be transmitted from mother to child. It can also be trasmitted through sexual contact or shared needles. Just huggibg or kissing someone with HIV will not give you it. AIDS is an advanced stage of HIV.
How can HIV be transmitted from a pregnant women to her developing child?
During Birth
If your partner has AIDS and you have a child with him will the child have aids too?
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is transmitted through contact with blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk. HIV is also able to be passed from mother-to-child. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a diagnosis that someone who is The HIV status of the father is irrelevant as it relates to the HIV status of the mother. This is going to get really complicated, so I hope that I can explain it in a way that reads well. The HIV status of the mother may have an impact however. If you consider that a father with an AIDS diagnosis would be HIV+, he would have had sex with the child's mother at least one time. Although each sexual exposure to an HIV positive person does not result in transmission of the virus, each exposure carries a certain degree of risk for infection. If the mother is HIV negative and completely disengages with any "at-risk" contact with the HIV+ father, the child will be born negative and remain that way. If the mother were to become infected, the child is at risk for HIV infection in several ways. It is possible to transmit HIV to newborns during childbirth, although it is just as likely for women with HIV to give birth to HIV- children. If a child is not born HIV+, but the HIV+ mother breastfeeds, the child will once again be at risk for infection as a result of contact with HIV+ breast milk. In the Unites States, women who seek medical care during pregnancy are routinely tested for HIV. If a woman tests HIV positive during pregnancy, there are many treatment options that can almost eliminate the risk of transmitting the virus from mother-to-child.
Is AIDS caused by microbes?
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by a virus known asHuman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV is contagious and can be transmitted from person to person. HIV can be transmitted during sexual contact, sharing contaminated needles, from mother to child through breast milk or during birth. HIV has also been spread as the result of contaminated blood products.
Are boys born with hiv?
A person is born with HIV only if the mother carrying the child is HIV+ and passed it to her child. There are numerous precautions mothers can take to significantly decrease the risk of passing HIV onto their children. If the child is infected with HIV, then the infection either happened during the gestation (while the mother was pregnant) or during the birth. There is a rupture of membranes during vaginal delivery, which causes the child to come into contact with the mother's blood. This can pass HIV to the child. Because of this, many HIV+ women will deliver via C-section to avoid this contact with blood.
If mother is HIV positivedoes her foetus also be HIV positive?
yes, because the mother will have to breastfeed her child in the process her child will obtain the virus, the virus can not be genetically transferred however
What is Born HIV Free's motto?
The motto of Born HIV Free is 'End mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015'.
List 2 ways that HIV can be transmitted and 2 ways it can't?
HIV can be transmitted by blood and breast milk. HIV can't be transmitted by sweat and saliva.
How easy it it to get aids?
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be transmitted through unprotected sex with an infected person. It can also be transmitted through accidental exposure, such as being pricked by a needle that has the virus. It can also be passed from an infected mother to her child during pregnancy and delivery.
What is a common way that HIV is transmitted?
Having unprotected sex with an HIV infected person is a common way that HIV is transmitted.
What is a common way hiv is transmitted?
Having unprotected sex with an HIV infected person is a common way that HIV is transmitted.
