HIV Basics: Prevention, Testing, Treatment, and Adherence

Phil Johnson, M.D. explains basic information about HIV: how to avoid contracting it or transmitting it; the importance of getting tested to know your HIV status; how HIV and AIDS are treated; and the importance of taking your antiretroviral medication as prescribed. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/aidsvideos_pj_basics . Visit http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2007-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

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[shelbynew82]

can a baby born with HIV grow out of the disease ?

[AIDSvideos]

@shelbynew82: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. If a baby is confirmed HIV+ one year after delivery, they are HIV+ for life. They will not "grow out" of being HIV+. However, ARVs may enable them to live a normal quality and length of life, and we can hope that in the future genetic therapies may yield a "functional cure" for HIV.

[shelbynew82]

Thank you for your response.