If your partner has AIDS and you have a child with him will the child have aids too?

Answer 1

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.