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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Center for AIDS: Hope & Remembrance Project
Born with HIV infection in 1992, Jane Queen's prospects for life were bleak. Riddled by chronic, recurrent infections, Jane's blood platelets were low, predisposing her to easy bruising and bleeding. She contracted chickenpox twice, once requiring hospitalization. Only a miracle could restore her health.
Jane's miracle arrived in the summer of 1996 when she became one of the first children in the world to receive highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), powerful combinations of HIV medications that can near totally suppress the ability of the virus to reproduce within the body. Jane's miraculous road to health was detailed in an October, 1999 Houston Chronicle feature story by Leigh Hopper, entitled "Worlds Apart." Jane and thousands of other HIV-infected American children whose lives were slowly being extinguished in 1996 are thriving today.
Sadly, nearly a decade after Jane's miracle appeared, 2 million children living with HIV/AIDS in the...
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