Can Woman Who Have HIV Pass it Their Unborn Baby?

In Australia, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is most commonly spread through unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse with an infected person. Everybody knows this. Women who are HIV positive or have an HIV positive male partner may still consider pregnacy, adoption, and other ways to have children. However, getting approval for permanent care or adoption does require prospective parents to have a good health and a reasonable chance of staying healthy until the child reaches social and emotional independence.  HIV can pass form mother to baby during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. Women who are HIV positive should seek medical advice before they become pregnant as medical intervention may reduce the risk of an HIV-positive woman passing HIV to her unbron children. So in efect in most cases HIV is pass to the unborn baby, but not in all cases. If the woman wanting to have a baby, gets medical treatment before she gets pregnant they baby might not get HIV.  Around 14,800 people are living with HIV infection in Australia, including about 2,00 woman. In some cases, one partner is HIV positive and the other is not. This is sometimes referred to as " serodiscordance". Relationships issued as sex and having children are complicated for serodiscordant couples and counselling may be helpful. If the dad does not have HIV this reduced the risk of the baby getting it even more, because only the woman has it and if she attends to the doctor and takes medicine and does not have sexual intercourse with her partner while she's pregnant this will help even more. She also has to be really healthy. Also woman who want to have a baby can be artificially inseminated at the most of her fertile time of her menstrual cycle, rather than risk unprotected sex.  The in vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) can achieve pregnancy with a low risk of HIV transmission. The partner's sperm is washed to remove infected fluid and cells. A number of the woman's eggs (ova) are surgically removed and a single sperm from her partner injected in each, the fertilised eggs are then implanted into the woman's prepared uterus. Theres is no evidence that pregnancy will change the course of HIV pregression for HIV-positve women. There is also no evidence to suggest that babies born to HIV- positive mothers are more likely to have birth abnormalities. From personal experience I read a book based on a true story were this girl named Anna was abused and she had HIV, then she got pregnant and likely her baby was not borned with HIV because she got treatment. This happens to alot of girls around the world.