HIV

Former Member

Is it right for a couple who have HIV to have child together who will also have HIV?

Former Member

There is a good chance that the child will not have HIV. The virus is not automatically passed on to the child. Just thought I'd better point that out.

HIV+ parents all over the world are having babies, so I reckon it's better to just be practical about it, rather than go on about morals.

Also, HIV isn't necessarily an automatic death sentence any more. New treatments are making a big difference to many people.

Former Member

But there is still a 60% chance of giving your baby HIV! The average life expectancy for a child born with HIV is 17.5 years.

Former Member

But there is still a 60% chance of giving your baby HIV! The average life expectancy for a child born with HIV is 17.5 years.

Former Member

I think that any life is better than no life. On the subject of AIDS, what do we think about people who deliberately pass it on?

Former Member

Sorry Caliph, I have to disagree (I seem to be doing that with everyone these days!).

Where HIV is concerned, I don't think that a short life is better than no life at all, if you take into consideration the fact of the fear and confusion he could go through when he realises the horrible, agonising plight he could endure. Even if there was only a 1% chance of having a HIV+ baby, it should still be terrifying for any loving parent that you could be creating a life just to destroy it.

On the brighter side, the baby might having a long and happy life before getting run over by a bus. It could happen.

And as for the whole deliberately passing it on thing, you might want to see my last post under the 'WOW' topic, to save me ranting on about the wrongs of the world all over again <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/wink.gif"&gt;

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Okay, there I go. I think that a short life can still be a happy one, the real question is how it affects the parents, it might be easier emotionally for them if the child was terminated before they ever saw it, instead of loving and getting attached to their child just to have to watch it die a very slow and painful death.

What does everyone else think?

Former Member

Sorry Caliph, but I feel yet another Chica versus the World dispute coming on.

I don't believe that it should be about how it affects the parents, it should be how it affects the CHILD. Of course they're feelings are important, but not as important as the real victim - the one who could, as you put it, die a very slow and painful death.

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Former Member

Hi, I am new and this is my first message. Personally I believe that passing HIV onto a child is almost as bad as murdering someone.