Author: Song Xiaojing (Peking Union Medical College Hospital)
AIDS patients, like ordinary people, have the right to normal love, marriage, and giving birth to healthy babies.
In terms of marriage and childbirth, there is no legal prohibition, only one is the obligation to inform the partner of the infection. With the informed consent of the other party, it is completely possible to get married and have children.
If only one spouse is hive and wants to try to conceive, the safest method is semen processing (sperm elution) and artificial insemination.
Or let the positive party continue to take antiviral drugs to maximize the virus suppression, and the negative party can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) every day, do not use condoms during the woman's ovulation period, and avoid HIV transmission between partners.
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For mothers who are infected with HIV themselves, treatment can be carried out according to the diagnosis and treatment standards of maternal and infant blockade, and the number of viruses in the mother's body can be reduced by taking antiviral drugs, reducing the chance of HIV infection in the child's womb.
Within 6 hours of your baby's birth, you will also take antiviral drugs (which are provided free of charge by maternal and child health facilities) for a month and a half.
At the same time, breastfeeding or mixed feeding should be eliminated, artificial feeding should be selected, contact between mother's blood, body fluids and the baby should be avoided, scientific nursing, and regular physical examination should be carried out to create a good and healthy growth environment for the baby.
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In short, the fertility of infected people is not a problem in medicine, and the drug regimen blocked by mothers and babies in China is the same as in European and American countries.
In some medical research on "single yang (one side is HIV-positive)" family fertility, Chinese scientists have even come to the forefront of the world.
Couples who want to have children, as soon as possible to start formal treatment, under the guidance of professional doctors, optimize the treatment plan, make full preparations for pregnancy, and have a healthy baby is not a dream.
It is also expected that the infected person can find the direction of his heart, find the person who can truly understand and accept himself, build a happy family, and live a beautiful life together.
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