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No HIV for Violet's Baby
Nov., 2009
By Collins Kaumba
Violet is HIV positive. Her baby girl is not. Thanks to a World Vision program in Zambia that helps reduce the transmission rate of HIV from mothers to their children, moms like Violet are able to give birth to healthy, HIV-negative babies.
Violet Nkandu, 32, is a widow and a mother of six: four girls and two boys. Violet's husband, who was the father of her first five children, died in 2000.
In the years after her husband died, Violet was often sick and went to the hospital frequently. She didn't know she was HIV positive until she became severely ill in 2007 and was tested for the virus. She needed to start anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment immediately, but it wouldn’t be an instant fix. It would take time for her immune system to recover.
© 2009 WorldVision
For full article, visit:
http://www.worldvision.org/news.nsf/news/world-aids-day-200911-enews?Open&campaign=12653953&cmp=EMC-12653953&ppi=&wvport=pr&wvsrc=enews
category: Member Organization News : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 19 November 2009
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