Are all the children born to HIV infected mother infected with HIV ?
No. about one-third of children born to HIV positive mothers become infected with HIV. However nowadays if one gives anti HIV drug AZT to these mothers during pregnancy and labor and then to newborn child this risk of infection can be reduced considerably. Q: What is the truth about the AIDS cure claims published daily in the newspapers? A: Traditional medical practitioners tend to believe that they can cure AIDS by giving immuno-potentiating drugs. Due to lack of knowledge about conducting clinical trials scientifically, hasty conclusions are drawn on simple outcome measures such as weight gain or feeling of well being. Such improvements are dubbed as AIDS cure claims. Many AIDS cure claims tend to get published in the newspapers in India. Unfortunately, these claims are not based over adequate scientific evidence and they are just made to extract money from these poor sufferers. HIV / AIDS patients in search of hope tend to get easily attracted towards such claims and take the treatm
