most children born with HIV now survive to adulthood, a significantly different prognosis of death near some waiting babies infected with HIV years, researchers report.
Researchers are children followed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to better understand the effects of the treatment and identify possible complications.
"About two-thirds of these children, at this stage, do not have detectable in the blood virus" Tulane University infectious disease expert Dr. Russell Van Dyke said in a press release from the University. "While they are still infected, and that they are not cured, it is surprising how they do, given that they have passed through."
However, with longer survival, new questions arise. "We do not see death, we used to see due to infection, but we are beginning to worry about long-term complications," Van Dyke said. "Some of these complications may be related to HIV itself, or some may be related to drugs that these children are."
Complications include diseases of disorders and coronary arteries cognitive. Still, Van Dyke said the patients in the study should have normal lifetimes or at least near normal. It is a sign that HIV/AIDS becomes a chronic disease, one always fatal.
"These children are doing very well", said Van Dyke. "They are going to school and do all the things children should have." Hopefully, they will be life 50 or 60 years or more, therefore what will happen in 40 years is the real concern. ?
Because of advances in medicine, transmission of HIV from the mother pregnant baby has dropped significantly, Van Dyke added.
The study was published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
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