How is HIV transmitted from mother to child?

Can AIDS be transmitted through breast milk?

Yes, AIDS can be transmitted through breast milk from an HIV-positive mother to her child.

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.

Is HIV transmitted through breast milk?

Yes, HIV can be transmitted through breast milk from an infected mother to her baby.

Can HIV be transmitted through breast milk?

Yes, HIV can be transmitted through breast milk from an infected mother to her baby.

Can HIV spread through breastfeeding?

Yes, HIV can be transmitted from a mother to her baby through breastfeeding if the mother is infected with the virus.

How can HIV be transmitted through breast milk?

HIV can be transmitted through breast milk when a mother living with HIV passes the virus to her baby through breastfeeding. The virus can be present in breast milk and can infect the baby if the mother is not on antiretroviral treatment.

How is HIV transmitted through breast milk?

HIV can be transmitted through breast milk when a mother who is infected with the virus breastfeeds her baby. The virus can pass from the mother's milk to the baby's bloodstream, increasing the risk of the baby becoming infected with 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.

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