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Aiding aids. (Scan).(AIDS disease)(Brief Article)
In June, President Bush announced he would make $500 million available to provide anti-viral drugs, medical staff training, and preventive care to pregnant women in African and Caribbean nations. The goal: Preventing these women from passing HIV to their babies when they are born. "Medical science gives us the power to save these young lives. Conscience demands we do so," Bush said.
Ironically, around the same time, at a reproductive-medicine conference in Vienna, fertility specialists lauded as "progress" a development making it easier for HIV-positive patients to conceive. As UPI reported, a Swiss doctor presented the results of his survey of 160 heterosexual couples with one infected partner. Fifty-three percent of the couples partner expressed a desire to conceive naturally, and 24 percent admitted to not using condoms regularly.
In the United States alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control, there are an estimated 900,000 people infected with HIV. More than half are between ages 20 and 39, peak reproductive years. Although fertility specialists are generally reluctant to encourage HIV patients to reproduce, the law, notes Janice Copeland of the ...
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