Can AIDES Be Outgrown?
By Rozie37
@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
April 30, 2007 5:30pm CST
A friend of mine claims that there are babies who are born with AIDES and are treated with the AZT medication and then they eventually outgrow the disease.
I have never heard of such a thing, but I am willing to admit that I do not know everything. I do not know where to begin to look up such informatio. She claims to have heard about it on Night-Line and says that I can find the information on Wikipedia, however, I no longer trust their information.
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@delenep (212)
• United States
2 May 07
If I'm not mistaken, AZT is given to the pregnant mom to try and prevent her from passing AIDS onto the baby. AIDS it not something u can outgrow. Once u have it, u will eventually die as there is no cure. It slowly destroys ur immune system. Also AZT gives the baby a 50/50 chance of not contracting AIDS. It's not guaranteed.
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
2 May 07
About halfway through this article is the specific information about why some babies test positive at birth, but are in fact negative.
Oh damn, now it won't let me copy & paste- grrrr
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/hiv_prt.htm
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
1 May 07
See, that's my whole arguement, I had heard no such thing. I mean, I don't watch television, and although people look at me like I am mentally challenged, when I say that, they would mention something that big on the internet.
I mean, I would expect that to be a breaking news miracle. I think she may have gotten that confused wtih a much sadder story I heard a while ago about little girls in Africa being raped by the men who believe that some how their innocence will cure them.
